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Apple Releases OS X El Capitan Golden Master to Developers Ahead of September 30 Launch
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Same here, why are we getting the "a" build instead of the "b" build? I also got a prompt for Feedback Assistant, did we end up getting a beta instead of GM? I did mine through the App Store purchases tab, as I did the public beta and got that email.
It seems Public Beta = 15A282a, Developer = 15A282b. The one letter difference is probably only there to distinguish the releases.
It's not an image file. It ends up as an App. I saved mine to my Files hard drive and ran it from there. Both times. I work in 10.10.5 and checked my eMail after installing on my 10.11 partition and followed the link to the dev site and reDL'd the installer in case I got a wonky one from the app store. It found the app on my other HD and reinstalled over it. And it ran just as the other one did. Except this one was dated today, instead of June 6 like the first one said.
The last installer I used shows version 15A283
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El Capitan 10.11 GM have bugs too...
1. When you open a big picture(2000x4695) via original preview application, then full screen you'll see nothing. Yes!!! See "Nothing" ,where is my picture ?
2. El Capitan 10.11 GM makes my workplace's wifi can't connection. it's fine until I update from 278 to 282a ...
1. When you open a big picture(2000x4695) via original preview application, then full screen you'll see nothing. Yes!!! See "Nothing" ,where is my picture ?
2. El Capitan 10.11 GM makes my workplace's wifi can't connection. it's fine until I update from 278 to 282a ...
Do any of you with the GM candidate know if you can still turn rootless/system integrity protection off?
I'm half way through a game which I'm emulating using Wine, which doesn't work with rootless. In the betas you could turn it off by running 'csrutil disable' from the terminal in recovery mode, but I remember reading that Apple were going to force rootless in the public release.
I'm half way through a game which I'm emulating using Wine, which doesn't work with rootless. In the betas you could turn it off by running 'csrutil disable' from the terminal in recovery mode, but I remember reading that Apple were going to force rootless in the public release.
Hello, I have tried a few OS X betas in the past, and had relatively few issues (besides a few corrupted files during a prior and far less stable El Capitan beta). But, I'm now in a rather interesting situation.
In a momentary lapse of concentration, I didn't notice which volume the GM candidate was actually going to be installed to until it was too late. Now my main disk has the GM candidate installed, instead of the intended external disk.
Now I'm kinda concerned. Maybe I'm just being a worrywart, but I am a little concerned about my personal data.
This build seems stable enough, but still I worry.
I am curious as to whether anyone with more expertise than myself considers this build 'good enough' for daily use. I'd rather like to avoid having to futz around trying to revert the disk to Yosemite.
In a momentary lapse of concentration, I didn't notice which volume the GM candidate was actually going to be installed to until it was too late. Now my main disk has the GM candidate installed, instead of the intended external disk.
Now I'm kinda concerned. Maybe I'm just being a worrywart, but I am a little concerned about my personal data.
This build seems stable enough, but still I worry.
I am curious as to whether anyone with more expertise than myself considers this build 'good enough' for daily use. I'd rather like to avoid having to futz around trying to revert the disk to Yosemite.
Click on 'Version 10.11' in the dialog box. It should change to display the build number in brackets.
Yes, Apple consider it good enough for daily use. This is not a beta, this is the GM, which is a version that Apple believes is going to be the final publicly released version. Hope that gives you some comfort.
You shouldn't have to download any future versions as the GM will normally just update to the next version as expected (that is, when 10.11.1 comes out it will just show up for you as a normal update).
You can still create a bootable USB drive using the same method that's been available since Mavericks. Guide here tells you how (obviously change the 'Mavericks' bit to the relevant ElCap ones)...
http://www.marekbell.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-installation-for-os-x-mavericks-10-9-and-above/
Adobe Illustrator doesn't work for me with Developer GM (15A282b). Worked for me with DP8 (was broken at the beginning for me with I think: DP2-4 don't remember excactly, worked for the last ones).
Can somebody confirm? Or should I search for the problem at software, not system level?
Also since the update today my incoming Yahoo IMAP for 3 Yahoo accounts doesn't work (SMTP, outgoing works), but I really think, this is just a coincidence and has to do with the yahoo servers... Need to try t Don't think, its a systemlevel thing...
If somebody is interessted: I also downloaded the installer of the Public Beta GM (15A282a) and I noticed 2 differences: 1: The X Icon war grey in PB GM, whereas it was colorful in Developer GM, and the filesize was different: 6.014.089.292 Byte for Public, 6.071.584.835 Byte for Developer, so 55MB difference. There is also a difference in the version of the file: PB 1.7.17 vs DP 1.7.27 . See in the screenshot...
I did not install PB GM, so I can't report on differences after the install...
Can somebody confirm? Or should I search for the problem at software, not system level?
Also since the update today my incoming Yahoo IMAP for 3 Yahoo accounts doesn't work (SMTP, outgoing works), but I really think, this is just a coincidence and has to do with the yahoo servers... Need to try t Don't think, its a systemlevel thing...
If somebody is interessted: I also downloaded the installer of the Public Beta GM (15A282a) and I noticed 2 differences: 1: The X Icon war grey in PB GM, whereas it was colorful in Developer GM, and the filesize was different: 6.014.089.292 Byte for Public, 6.071.584.835 Byte for Developer, so 55MB difference. There is also a difference in the version of the file: PB 1.7.17 vs DP 1.7.27 . See in the screenshot...
I did not install PB GM, so I can't report on differences after the install...
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Installed GM over previous beta on Macbook Pro with success , but then I tried my MacMini with laterst Yosemite and its a total crash , several restarts and kernel panis , which have been reorganised into restart again and so forth . Now im at recovering from Time Machine . So I would suggest to wait !
That...is actually the old Public Beta installer.
The Public GM Candidate I downloaded, had a coloured icon and identical filename to the developer installer you have there.