>From the below description, I suspect that you didn't so much interrupt >something as wake something up. :-)
I suspect your Mac finished to a point and then waited for you while you were eating, went to sleep, woke up when you came back and pressed the Power button, and picked up where it left off. Happy ending in any case. On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 06:27:28PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: I waited another forty minutes while I had supper, and still nothing. So I got brave and turned off the power. oddly enough, when I pressed and held the power button for the usual few seconds to turn it back on, I did not get the classic Mac bong. Instead, the system came right back up, seemingly where it left off. Pressing keys on the keyboard elicited the standard Mac don't-press-that-button-again noise, so I left it alone. About a minute later, I heard "VOCR is ready" in a decidedly different voice--obviously the one for normal speech output, not my VoiceOver voice choice. I then turned VoiceOver on properly, and there I was, in Sequoia 15.73, ready to go. I don't know whether restarting the system manually via the power button had anything to do with the update, and, like the song says, I guess I never will. All in all, a very tense hour and a half. One gets used to things behaving in a particular way, and when they don't, one tends to get a little edgy about it, especially when there's no help available until maybe a couple more days. On 1/10/2026 4:52 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > Thanks. I'll wait, and report what happens either way. > > > On 1/10/2026 4:46 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote: > > The only way is to wait. > > I had similar experience and I waited for 25 minutes. > > It finally came up and all was well. > > By the way this update has also got some performance enhancements for > > Voiceover. > > Now I can have much longer web pages before “safari is not responding > > “ happens. > > It still happens in long chatgpt sessions but now it happens much later. > > The apple guys claim there are few more overall performance fixes as > > well. > > Regards. > > > > > On 11 Jan 2026, at 2:55 AM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > I got a message that Sequoia 15.73 will be installed tonight. > > > Instead, I opted to install it now. The system went down about > > > fifteen minutes ago. I cannot start VoiceOver, which I can usually > > > do during an update, so I have no idea what my Mini without a > > > monitor is doing. Any ideas? > > > > > -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." --Rod Serling -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/rq76go4lgryvopw5pillnyk2z3km6agu2q45o3dsaanjvu3xyu%404waseyalifix.
