nightmare... or not :)

As the good Apple citizen that I am I downloaded the latest combo patch and proceeded to install it on my iMac this past Sunday. When the iMac reboted itself things were taking so long that I figured I should reboot again... Bad idea. Let me say that again: BAD IDEA. The system wouldn't boot up normally anymore and instead it left me with a nice light blue screen (of death?). I tried every possible solution in the Apple support center and couldn't make the bloody thing to work.

In the end I had to mount my external hard drive manually, move my personal files there and re-install the system. Trust me, I wasn't happy. One of the main reasons to get a Mac is not to have to deal with a problem like this that, whatever people say does not happen so often in Windows systems anyway. I started to drive myself into a frenzy of complains when it hit me. This had nothing to do with Mac or Apple or the update, it was simply my fault for rushing things. I can't say for sure, because other people have reported similar problems, but I suspect that if I had just waited a few seconds more my update would have probably been properly installed and I wouldn't have had to re-install. So. Lesson learned. Patience is important. Next time I will not rush to reboot when things take two nanoseconds longer than I expect. Maybe I simply need to relax...

Mr. C