Just a couple of weeks ago I was waiting on a Taxi to take me to the Airport. With about 15 minutes to go I get online to make sure my flight is on time. When I go to shut downn my computer it starts doing that “update” thing. Complete with warnings about “DO NOT SHUT OFF YOUR COMPUTER!!”
But I want to put my Laptop in my safe, and I have to close it to do that. Fortunately, it finished about two minutes before the Taxi arrived. But I was so flustered that I forgot to change from my reading glasses to my outdoor glasses. So I spent the whole trip in a fog.
So....what happens if you do shut your computer off while it’s updating? I can’t believe it would be anything too terrible.
Absolutely nothing bad should happen in such a case. The update should either succeed or fail completely. It should not matter if the update is run half a time, a full time, and then reattempted. This is elementary software engineering.
It’ll recover but it can get ugly. If it happens again, put the laptop away while it’s still running- if the update takes longer than your battery life then something is seriously wrong.
> So....what happens if you do shut your computer off while it’s updating? I can’t believe it would be anything too terrible.
Actually if you shut down in the middle of updates you stand a pretty good chance of it not booting up the next time. Unlikely that you’ll lose everything, but it may be pretty exciting getting the computer to work again.