Bigsur updating "Installation failed"

I have a 2019 macbook pro and I tried to update to big sur the past 6 days and each time it keeps telling me "Installation failed: An error has occured while installing the selected updates." I heard apple has fixed this but it still is not working for me.

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Posted on Nov 18, 2020 05:41 PM

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Posted on Nov 19, 2020 01:34 PM

Try installing this in Safe Mode...

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup).

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BDAqua

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Nov 19, 2020 01:34 PM in response to crzycardriver

Try installing this in Safe Mode...

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup).

BDAqua

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Nov 19, 2020 12:18 PM in response to crzycardriver

Do you have 36 GB of free space?

Nov 19, 2020 01:18 PM in response to BDAqua

Yes about 50GB

Nov 20, 2020 03:15 AM in response to BDAqua

It worked! Thanks!!

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Nov 20, 2020 09:23 AM in response to crzycardriver

Great news, take care my friend! :)

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