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I did, and it ran forever, then gave up, so it wasn’t any help.

Thanks.

The first time I forget to set my no-update date to the 26th, and we get a DEFCON 1 level!

That being said, the patch did fail for me even though I don’t have BitLocker running.  Now what is the fallout, other than the failure message?  As a longtime programmer, I would expect (hope?) that the first thing the patch does is check the size of the partition and immediately terminate if it’s too small, in other words, no harm, no foul.  It would be naive, amateurish and incompetent to start writing to the partition without that step and detect the problem only after the partition has been trashed … but then, expecting the average user to be able to expand the partition and move on is also naive, amateurish and incompetent in addition to being a cure possibly worse than the disease due to how many users it would affect.

Do we know of any ill effects if the patch fails, or is the DEFCON-1 intended to protect against any unknown problems?

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I think the Pause feature actually creeps forward with the calendar.  That is, the date range available moves one day each day.