OS X 10.10 Yosemite - Public Beta - July 24th

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 1:20am #1

So Apple officially announced that the public beta program will open to anybody who signed up starting from today (July 24th). Link here for anybody still wanting to sign up.

So who's signed up here? And if so post here to let us know if you've recieved your invitation.

I signed up just after the keynote in June. So I'm hoping to be sent an invite and try it out, it seems to be limited to the first 1 million users who signed up. I've just one Mac so I'll be using it on my main machine, I don't do anything specific on it anyway so if it's a bit buggy I'll be grand with it. Seeing reports it's release could be October I'm hoping to try it out early and hopefully get to keep it as long as it's not too problematic.

banquo · 24-07-2014 4:49am

I also signed up pretty much immediately, no email yet

This is also my work machine but I'll probably bite and run the beta from the 2nd iteration. Had the most recent beta running on a partition for a few weeks and it is _gorgeous_. Serious eye candy.

osnola ibax · 24-07-2014 6:40am

Signed up have a mid 2012 MacBook pro and a mid 2011 MacBook air with 2gb ram, I'll stick it on the air I'd say even though it will struggle with the small amount of ram

osnola ibax · 24-07-2014 8:12am

banquo wrote: »

I also signed up pretty much immediately, no email yet

This is also my work machine but I'll probably bite and run the beta from the 2nd iteration. Had the most recent beta running on a partition for a few weeks and it is _gorgeous_. Serious eye candy.

Is your machine a retina?

Zcott · 24-07-2014 10:31am

Does this enable iCloud Drive, and if so, does that render Documents and Data over iCloud useless? I know the iOS 8 betas have icloud drive enabled on them as as it's different to Docs and Dada there's not compatibility ATM.

FourFourRED · 24-07-2014 10:32am

Was one of the first to sign up to this. Looking forward to trying it out!

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 10:56am

Zcott wrote: »

Does this enable iCloud Drive, and if so, does that render Documents and Data over iCloud useless? I know the iOS 8 betas have icloud drive enabled on them as as it's different to Docs and Dada there's not compatibility ATM.

Certain features that work with iOS 8 have been removed for the public beta. It's possible this could be one of the disabled features as well. I know a lot of the continuity stuff won't be there.

fjon · 24-07-2014 3:01pm

I'm awaiting my email too. I'm guessing it will be sent out morning PST time, so from 5pm onwards. Any idea what kind of size download it will be? Am on an extremely crap connection so I could be downloading all night.

Zcott · 24-07-2014 3:13pm

fjon wrote: »

I'm awaiting my email too. I'm guessing it will be sent out morning PST time, so from 5pm onwards. Any idea what kind of size download it will be? Am on an extremely crap connection so I could be downloading all night.

Probably a couple of gb. I think mountain lion was 3gb.

FourFourRED · 24-07-2014 3:28pm

fjon wrote: »

I'm awaiting my email too. I'm guessing it will be sent out morning PST time, so from 5pm onwards. Any idea what kind of size download it will be? Am on an extremely crap connection so I could be downloading all night.

Around 4.7gb

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 3:49pm

Still nothing for me. I'd say it will be sometime after 6pm Irish time. That's usually the time Apple roll out updates anyway. (Im)patiently waiting for an email atm.

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 4:10pm

Zcott wrote: »

Does this enable iCloud Drive, and if so, does that render Documents and Data over iCloud useless? I know the iOS 8 betas have icloud drive enabled on them as as it's different to Docs and Dada there's not compatibility ATM.

I reckon iCloud Drive will be disabled for public beta users. If it isn’t, you’ll be given a option during installation to upgrade to iCloud Drive or continue using iCloud Documents & Data. You should choose the later. But there’s been reports of users who had their account upgraded anyway, so you probably shouldn’t install Yosemite at all unless you can easily switch to using Dropbox for document syncing.

Deep Thought · 24-07-2014 4:17pm

so, If I currently have all my photos auto going to iCloud at the moment

Will I loose them ?

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 4:19pm

Deep Thought wrote: »

so, If I currently have all my photos auto going to iCloud at the moment

Will I loose them ?

The upgrade to iCloud Drive only affects iCloud Documents & Data (which it is replacing). Other iCloud services such as Photo Stream are unaffected.

Nemeses · 24-07-2014 4:41pm

Its recommended to install 10.10 onto an external harddrive or NOT onto a mac you are currently using (Such as a second partition) as reverting back will certainly be a pain in the bum!

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 5:30pm

Just logged into the beta site and it looks like I was accepted into the beta program. Gonna power up the MacBook and give it a go.

EDIT: iCloud Drive is included but again, your asked if you want to upgrade to it first.

FourFourRED · 24-07-2014 5:42pm

I have my redemption code & ready to go!

5.07GB file size by the way.

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 6:04pm

Downloaded and ready to go for me. Just waiting for a Time Machine backup to finish. It was just done and then jumped in size to include the 10.10 beta I just downloaded. Shouldn't be too much longer.

Zcott · 24-07-2014 6:21pm

No email from Apple so I assume I'm not part of the public beta :-(

fjon · 24-07-2014 6:24pm

DubDJ wrote: »

Downloaded and ready to go for me. Just waiting for a Time Machine backup to finish. It was just done and then jumped in size to include the 10.10 beta I just downloaded. Shouldn't be too much longer.

I envy your broadband speeds - your download is quicker than your backup! 3 hours 37 minutes to go for me

Mimikyu · 24-07-2014 6:26pm

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DubDJ · 24-07-2014 6:40pm

fjon wrote: »

I envy your broadband speeds - your download is quicker than your backup! 3 hours 37 minutes to go for me

I'm on UPC's lowest tier BB. Supposed to be 60MB I think but I do get the actual advertised speeds so I never have trouble with downloads.

So i'm getting this during installation. Guessing I need to partition?

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 6:43pm

No, you just need to reformat the drive with GUID, which is necessary in order to boot off the drive.

EDIT: never mind, I thought you were installing on an external hd. I’m not sure why you are getting that error. I guess it just won’t install over Mavericks.

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 6:46pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

No, you just need to reformat the drive with GUID, which is necessary in order to boot off the drive.

Will this wipe the drive or is it just changing the type? Never encountered this before.

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 6:48pm

DubDJ wrote: »

Will this wipe the drive or is it just changing the type? Never encountered this before.

It’ll wipe the drive. The thing is the drive should already be GUID. Intel Macs need it to boot. That’s why I assumed it was an external.

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 6:51pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

It’ll wipe the drive. The thing is the drive should already be GUID. Intel Macs need it to boot. That’s why I assumed it was an external.

It's strange because its the drive i'm running Mavericks on at the moment. I've swapped the HDD out and back again so maybe it went wrong somewhere along the lines. So looks like i'll need to reformat and restore from Time Machine.

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 6:53pm

Check what the partition map scheme is in Disk Utility. It’ll say at the bottom, below the SMART status.

It’s possible during an earlier restoration that you restored onto a new drive using Apple partition map. The system let you boot from it but won’t let you install on it.

My memory is hazy, but I think this might have happened to me at some point as well. It must have been some time ago though since Disk Utility has been automatically formatting in GUID for quite a while.

DubDJ · 24-07-2014 7:03pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

Check what the partition map scheme is in Disk Utility. It’ll say at the bottom, below the SMART status.

It’s possible during an earlier restoration that you restored onto a new drive using Apple partition map. The system let you boot from it but won’t let you install on it.

My memory is hazy, but I think this might have happened to me at some point as well. It must have been some time ago though since Disk Utility has been automatically formatting in GUID for quite a while.

Yeah it was the wrong partion map
Scheme. I had used bootcamp a while back too so something must of messed it up at some time. Gonna wipe the drive now and restore from time machine. Probably have to wait till tomorrow to try Yosemite though. Thanks Prof.

Sad Professor · 24-07-2014 7:05pm

It’s funny how I how often I find the answer to something Mac related by searching my own posts. I totally forgot about this. From 2011:

Sad Professor wrote: »

Karsini wrote: »

Sad Professor wrote: »

You'll need to reformat it as GUID. I thought Disk Utility did this automatically since SL, but if not go into the partitions tab and do it from there. Intel macs need GUID to boot so I don't know how you were booting using APM.

I thought only PowerPC Macs could boot with Apple Partition Map.

I thought so too, but in fact it seems that OS X can boot from APM on an Intel Mac, it just won't install on APM. Silvine must have restored from a TM backup.

So yeah, you’ll have to reformat the drive.

airuser · 24-07-2014 7:18pm

Aodhagan wrote: »

I have my redemption code & ready to go!

5.07GB file size by the way.

How did you get the Code

dubmick · 24-07-2014 7:21pm

airuser wrote: »

How did you get the Code

Accept the terms and conditions on the beta page and you will get link to get the code

OS X 10.10 Yosemite - Public Beta - July 24th

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