I am trying to update my to macOS Ventura and a Safari update and get an error message - "Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again."? Ive tried many times, restarted my computer but it still won't update? any idea why?

I am trying to update my to macOS Ventura and a Safari update and get an error message - "Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again."? Ive tried many times, restarted my computer but it still won't update? Any idea why?


Posted on Nov 12, 2022 11:48 AM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2022 12:31 AM

This has just happened to me and I suspect that I don't have enough free disk space. I had expected that the update process would tell me that that was the case before it started but it didn't. Subsequently when I restarted the laptop in recovery mode and tried to rebuild the operating system, it did tell me that I was short of space. Now trying to access the disk in Target Disk Mode to free up some space.

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Dec 7, 2022 12:31 AM in response to JoMePa-11

This has just happened to me and I suspect that I don't have enough free disk space. I had expected that the update process would tell me that that was the case before it started but it didn't. Subsequently when I restarted the laptop in recovery mode and tried to rebuild the operating system, it did tell me that I was short of space. Now trying to access the disk in Target Disk Mode to free up some space.

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I am trying to update my to macOS Ventura and a Safari update and get an error message - "Failed to prepare the software update. Please try again."? Ive tried many times, restarted my computer but it still won't update? any idea why?

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