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edniknak

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 12, 2011
3
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Folks,

My antivirus (AVG on personal laptop and McAfee on work laptop) was blocking access to the Apple servers. I disabled AV and >BOOM< it worked!! :cool:

Give it a try!!!
 

MacbookSwitcher

macrumors 6502
Mar 13, 2007
299
1
No good for me. I don't have anti-virus, yet I can't get past the "Backing Up" phase. The most I get is the progress bar moving about 1 millimeter every 10 minutes. Still in a state of epic fail 3+ hours later.
 

edniknak

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 12, 2011
3
0
How about an antispyware program like Malwarebytes or Adaware or Spybot? If you have those, are they disabled?
 

Goliver24

macrumors newbie
Oct 12, 2011
1
0
I disabled my antivirus software at work (Microsoft Forefront) and it happened to work after that. I still think I got lucky and it just happened to work that time (5th time) but maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
 
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