OS X 10.10 Yosemite - Public Beta - July 24th

DubDJ

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

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

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

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

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

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

DubDJ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Will I loose them ?

Sad Professor

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

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

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

I have my redemption code & ready to go!

5.07GB file size by the way.

DubDJ

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

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

fjon

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

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DubDJ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aodhagan wrote: »

I have my redemption code & ready to go!

5.07GB file size by the way.

How did you get the Code

dubmick

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

airuser

dubmick wrote: »

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

Ok, got that.

It appears that the site is over subscribe at this time. Will wait till later and see what happen.

I have partition my drive to install it.

DubDJ

Just reformatted & have it restoring at the moment. Long road ahead for me.

Anybody have it up and running yet?

airuser

airuser wrote: »

Ok, got that.

It appears that the site is over subscribe at this time. Will wait till later and see what happen.

I have partition my drive to install it.

Have been unable to get on the site. Found an external HD and will install it on that. Might be safe.

When one gets on the download site,. It will take some time to download with the numbers trying for it.

My Son in the States (Raleigh) had said they are having the same problems

airuser

Has anyone completed the download as yet?

airuser

Aodhagan wrote: »

Around 4.7gb

Down load 5.7Gb

DubDJ

airuser wrote: »

Has anyone completed the download as yet?

I did but I was quick off the mark with the download. It finished up quick enough for me. Servers are probably being hit hard at the moment.

airuser

DubDJ wrote: »

I did but I was quick off the mark with the download. It finished up quick enough for me. Servers are probably being hit hard at the moment.

Have you installed it the external HD or to a partition on you Mac"s HD.

Still no access as yet.

BTW. What time dis you get the download?

airuser

Got through, but messed it up. Cannot now download the software.

DubDJ

airuser wrote: »

Have you installed it the external HD or to a partition on you Mac"s HD.

Still no access as yet.

BTW. What time dis you get the download?

I had trouble with my install so had to reformat my internal HDD. Still waiting for it to restore so I won't get to try Yosemite till tomorrow.

Anybody getting the code already redeemed message check this link.

Seems like the beta site is down so people might not get the download working.

airuser

Have tried the link, no luck.

Will try the other Mac. Failing that try again tomorrow

airuser

Ha! Found it in my purchases , downloading about 50 mins to go. Shall try and put it on external HD.
Thanks for the help.

airuser

Should have said that I could not generate another code. However, reading http://9to5mac.com
Comments on "Yosemite ", someone suggested trying "purchases" on The App Store. There was the download.

Thanks for the help once more.

Boards.ie come up with the goods once more.

airuser

Not a happy punter. Downloaded beta , but would not install. Have tried on a number of times, but no luck. Will have to wait till the release of the real thing.

Gods night

DubDJ

airuser wrote: »

Not a happy punter. Downloaded beta , but would not install. Have tried on a number of times, but no luck. Will have to wait till the release of the real thing.

Gods night

Why wouldn't it install? What was the actual issue?

airuser

Not to be defeated I believe that it may have been the external hard drive. We I went back into it, it would appear that nothing was recorded on the drive.
I have made a partition on the internal hard drive and now trying to install on that.

Also have another iMac and doing the same there.

Must have luck on one or the other.

Have the download file in the Apps folder and can try another Drive.

It all good fun.

Am a total Mac man. Give up PC's about 2004. Never have looked back.

Thanks for the enquiry.

The wife thinks I am mad.

airuser

Well, while I was waiting I played "Candy Crush". The OS downloaded and then told me it was installing on the " partitioned drive" and has installed ok. Just now at the creating account. But is stuck there. Gone though various settings.
Now, into the new system. Excellent.

Now, into feedback.

All ready to go.

airuser

Did not transfer any details from existing system. Will have to do one or two. Mail for one. Otherwise, shall did in and out.

airuser

DO NOT partition internal HD FOR YOSEMITE . I thought that I could swap over easily. ONE CANNOT. I am now restoring from a back up. Hope all will be ok.

down load to external HD.

That is my experience. Will take several hours to restore. Hoping that I have not lost anything.

Hope others have had a better experience.

Will not install on other computer. Will wait.

banquo

I give in. I'm too tempted. Gonna create a restore file and then on with Yosemite!

Edit: That's too much effort this time of night. I know Yosemite will have its bugs, fine with that, but what are the odds of me ending up having to wipe my HD at some point?

DubDJ

airuser wrote: »

DO NOT partition internal HD FOR YOSEMITE . I thought that I could swap over easily. ONE CANNOT. I am now restoring from a back up. Hope all will be ok.

down load to external HD.

That is my experience. Will take several hours to restore. Hoping that I have not lost anything.

Hope others have had a better experience.

Will not install on other computer. Will wait.

I've been in that restore process for the last few hours. Only 90 mins or so left. If I'm still awake I might start the Yosemite install.