Chuck, your post reminded me to do the upgrade too.
But I had a completely different, but still somewhat confusing experience.
After I downloaded the upgrade installer, which only took a minute or two,
when I connected the camera and selected "Next" to start the upgrade, the
camera was not recognized. There was no spinning dial, no hard drive being
accessed. After un connecting and reconnecting a couple of times, the
program "Olympus ib" popped up. I selected "Next" again to attempt the upgrade
and got an error message telling me to close "Olympus ib" ! As soon as I
closed it, I got a message saying the OM-D EM-5 driver was successfully
installed. When I again selected "Next" to start the upgrade, it started (I
saw
the spinning dial) and it was completed in two minutes! I got the "OK" on the
camera LCD and all now seems to be fine.
Once everything started working, the entire install took like 4 minutes.
But with all the error messages, about 10 minutes. Maybe the program was
working behind the scenes without a spinning dial? I don't know, but this is
completely normal considering my previous experiences with Olympus software.
They were not smooth experiences either.
--George
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Chuck wrote:
I had expected the entire process to take, perhaps, a few minutes. Once
it started up it quickly recognized the camera, called home and then
advised me there was an update for the body but that the lens was
current. Click next to continue. I did and it started with an image of
a rotating wheel or arrow (I don't recall which) apparently trying to
tell me it was doing *something*. After about 10-15 minutes the wheel
was still doing its rotation thing with no other status information
displayed. I had no idea what it was doing or how long it might take or
even if it knew what it was doing. What I did know is that I wasn't
about to interrupt it. I headed off to the bathroom to shower and shave
and finally got back to the computer after a total of 25-30 minutes had
elapsed since I started it. I was greatly relieved to see a big "OK" on
the LCD and the installation software telling me to click "next" and
detach the USB cable.
How long it actually took and whether it was really working all that
time or merely waiting on Olympus America I haven't a clue. But this is
just fair warning... a successful update might take quite some time.
Chuck Norcutt
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