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Apple Releases Third OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers
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Beta is pre release but not because functionality is missing but rather because bugs are present. It's supposed to be feature complete.
If you're suggesting that beta is for internal bug testing and gmc is for public testing, then apple is not following that because they released public betas.
As such Apple has taken the traditional role of beta and blurred it into gmc. To them gmc just seems to mean "we're a little more confident this beta is ready to go but we're still not sure. But we want you to get more excited. "
Hopefully this fixes the bug with thunderbolt dock usb controller when waking from sleep introduced in GMC
I also get the bug of the computer renaming itself with number iterations
I also get the bug of the computer renaming itself with number iterations
Running Beta 5, and while some of the interface changes are taking some getting used to, I am really liking it so far. Being able to answer my phone from my iMac is very cool, although the person I was talking to said the audio was kind of muffled.
Correction: as far as I know, there's no full installer for Golden Master candidate 3.0.
These aren't GM's. They are GM Candidates. Don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand.
This is why I prefer the old terminology.
Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate, GM.
Nope. It appears when I am using Safari on an iDevice, and disappears when I stop.
The only setting I changed (when I first installed the beta) is the Handoff setting under General in Settings.
Have they fixed the Finder preferences bug yet, for ****'s sake?
9 DPs and 3GMs ... you'd think someone would have noticed that Finder preferences are inaccessible.
Trash your com.apple.Finder.plist file, log out and in again, might help, but, all Finder setting are reset!
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Newbies
Clean install for what, OS X does not need to be reinstalled, well almost never, you can almost always fix problems in OS X.
Just an example what to do if there are problems, create a new account, log out and into the new account, problem gone then it's your normal user account which causes the problem and can always be fixed without a reinstall.
Read the whole damn thread before you post, it's been said many times it only occurs when the "reduce transparency" box is checked in Accessibility!
Why ?
You know GlenK, most here are just a smitten of the millions that will have it, and not go banana's over some trivial stuff that is now being posted. These are fanatics that have not seen the outdoors for a good while.
And when they read my post here they will jump on me as if they think what they are arguing over is important and I don't have a clue.. Sad.. Real sad1. transparency rant
2. Name of OS should be rant
3. Thin fonts rant
4. What does GM actually stand for rant
5. Etc, etc
How is it when it comes to performance vs Mavericks? I feel like to have a fast Mac you need an SSD which I don't have.
So totally irrelevant to Yosemite and about your iOS 8 so called bugs, you must be joking...
unfortunately not man i know how frustrating when it seems like the update just ****ed up your cpu can be. But IMHO first I'm an iOS dev don't do much dev for OS X--how ever the nerd in me always beta cycles---and IMHO as basically a third party perspective; a user; a voyuer from the cloud; this has been one of the smoothest OS X betas i've gone thru with Apple. Literally not one update has messed with anything basic things like Safari have never crashed, the only thing that did was back in DP2 and that was the Game Center; Apple responded to me quickly and DP3 it was fixed. Idk i love it; i look at 10.9 on my father and wifes computers and they look like they are stuck back in time; either that or I'm too far in the future
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no in fact its quite the opposite APPLE realllllly wants us to use transparency (obviously) soooooooo why would they fix it? hahahah but for real.
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those icons have been there since at least dp 8. handoff has never not worked for me. only SMS messaging and phone calls. Apps have always been able to handoff for me. And those icons were added a while ago because i have definitely pointed them out to my wife who is completely annoyed with me at this point (after iOS 8 beta and now w/ OS X lmmao)
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on your OS X Yosemite device;
settings---->general----->check allow handoff
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hmmm don't have that option (I'm on GM candidate 3)
I use Comcast Xfinity and have never had this problem.
Make a small 20GB partition. Install Yosemite on the partition and test. If the problems go away with connecting you know it's your install.
I've never understood why the filename for the disk utility icon in launchpad has always been wonky (ie not centred)
Is it so difficult to centre it?
It doesn't bother me, it's more amusing than anything else.
This 100x. If people started threads about how great everything was working or how much they loved something the internet would crash. Fortunately the moaners are a (albeit vocal) minority.
Is it so difficult to centre it?
It doesn't bother me, it's more amusing than anything else.
Why ?
You know GlenK, most here are just a smitten of the millions that will have it, and not go banana's over some trivial stuff that is now being posted. These are fanatics that have not seen the outdoors for a good while.
1. transparency rant
2. Name of OS should be rant
3. Thin fonts rant
4. What does GM actually stand for rant
5. Etc, etc
This 100x. If people started threads about how great everything was working or how much they loved something the internet would crash. Fortunately the moaners are a (albeit vocal) minority.
Did they have a spell checker at this bygone boutique?
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It is centered, it's just that the eye tries to center it on the hard drive icon, but the actual image area the text is centered to extends to the edge of the stethoscope.
Now lets have a big fight about it! Just to keep in the spirit of the thread of course....
Can someone answer a simple question please?
If I install the newest GM candidate public release on my main working machine, what happens if a new candidate version is released? Can I just update it the same as a 10.x.x update? Or do I need to do a whole new install again?
Secondly, once the final version is released on the 16th, can the candidate version be updated or will I need to do a whole fresh install?
Thanks.
If I install the newest GM candidate public release on my main working machine, what happens if a new candidate version is released? Can I just update it the same as a 10.x.x update? Or do I need to do a whole new install again?
Secondly, once the final version is released on the 16th, can the candidate version be updated or will I need to do a whole fresh install?
Thanks.
I assume that you are not a developer.
1. GM candidate is not a public release: it is for developers. However, you can install new GM candidate version (as if there would be any
) over current one.2. Candidate version can be updated to a final version but not through App Store. You can download final version from other sources (as you did with GM version) and install it over your GM. However, Public beta users will have an opportunity to install final version through App Store since it is linked to their Apple ID.
Verdict: do a fresh install of official release, so that Yosemite will be linked to your Apple ID.
I assume that you are not a developer.
1. GM candidate is not a public release: it is for developers. However, you can install new GM candidate version (as if there would be any
2. Candidate version can be updated to a final version but not through App Store. You can download final version from other sources (as you did with GM version) and install it over your GM. However, Public beta users will have an opportunity to install final version through App Store since it is linked to their Apple ID.
Verdict: do a fresh install of official release, so that Yosemite will be linked to your Apple ID.
Thank you. I'm actually part of the public beta, not the developer preview. So I just went to the public beta download from Apple, it is currently downloading. Will this version be the GM candidate being discussed in this thread or is it an older beta version?
Pre-release OS X 10.10 build 14A388a for developers, not public beta
The most recent public beta appears to be 14A386b (from around the same time as second GM candidate 14A386a).
The current beta for developers is more recent: 14A388a.
The most recent public beta appears to be 14A386b (from around the same time as second GM candidate 14A386a).
The current beta for developers is more recent: 14A388a.
Ok so the public beta I am downloading, if I install this as a fresh install, will I just update when the final version is released, or do I need to reinstall the final all over again?
Why ?
You know GlenK, most here are just a smitten of the millions that will have it, and not go banana's over some trivial stuff that is now being posted. These are fanatics that have not seen the outdoors for a good while.
1. transparency rant
2. Name of OS should be rant
3. Thin fonts rant
4. What does GM actually stand for rant
5. Etc, etc
Good, that restores some confidence. I'm not a developer or anything so just have to go by what I see on these testing threads. So from just the regular guy, thanks!!