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We're doing an IT refresh at work and have some old mid-2011 iMacs in a classroom. I thought I'd just try wiping one using internet recovery to see what happened (it failed), but thought the estimated download time was pretty hilarious. It did jump down from 53 minutes to 31 before it decided to give up π€£
As a software developer, I recognize minimum 32 bit integer anywhere!
I'm so glad you commented that, because after I posted I realised I'd forgotten to ask if anyone knew why that particular number of hours was displayed because I thought it mustn't just be random. Every day's a school day π
It's negative so it already finished a long time ago.
Shhh, I don't want my boss to find out - I've asked if it's okay if I can have the next 245,000 years to finish this job while the rest of the team deal with the rollout
Before the Big Bang.
I reset my brotherβs 2011 MacBook a couple years back and had the same thing happen. The progress bar would get entirely full and the estimated time would be either negative 400 seconds or over a billion hours remaining. It would just sit there with weird estimation times for hours. Had to attempt that reset a few times before it actually completed.
Only 245146 years to go!
Reminds me of updating an old Nokia feature phone (an XpressMusic) using Nokia PC Suite.
The progress bar just kept going until it hit the edge of the window (probably clipped by Windows). The percentage complete text stopped at 99% and the time remaining stuck at -0.
Phone updated okay though but took 90minutes.
Itβs almost done
I must admit my lunch break did feel a bit longer than usual