Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7

[pacmania1982]

My home folder is missing from /Users

Funny, you can see it in Terminal and get to it via command+shift+h in the Finder

***UPDATE***

Fixed by doing chflags no hidden /Users/rich in Terminal. Brings back memories of Lion!

 

[dugbug]

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Astonishingly ahead of its time.

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you have made me cry

 

[iolinux333]

Ahhh — The RAM Disk. I miss it.
Such a wonderful idea.

I used to copy the whole OS into RAM Disk and then boot from there so EVERYTHING ran in RAM. Dear Lord everything was instantaneous. My MBA running off an SSD isn't even close.

 

[mikecwest]

Force Quit Finder is showing because you're holding down option to take the screen shot. It's been that way since the initial version. Holding down option modifies certain menu items. Quit > Force Quit is one of them.

I am on PB2, I am holding down no keys and Force Quit Finder appears in apple menu..

 

[iolinux333]

you have made me cry

I know right? Didn't all of us Amiga people, 25 years ago, think we'd be a little further along today than trying to catch up to where we were... 25 years ago ?!?

 

[Brian Y]

"Internet Accounts" and adding new gmails accounts is broken in this build.

 

[kepardue]

The general consensus is 4th week of October, so we will probably get at least 1 more beta.

Is that really still the consensus? It's hard to imagine Apple releasing iOS 8 first and then Yosemite a month later because of the iCloud Drive changes. What are they going to do, have a warning on iOS 8 saying not to upgrade if you're a Mac user because it'll throw your iCloud versions out of sync? Once you move to CloudKit it breaks compatibility with < Yosemite/iOS 8 installs. That's going to lead to a LOT of upset customer calls.

 

[icerabbit]

Anybody gotten iMovie to work?

Seems to be a lost cause for me. Worked fine in Mavericks ... nothing since Yosemite.

 

[flipshot]

Can people show me their wifi icon? Mines changed to a bulky one and it looks off when compared to the other icons.

Have you got a non retina Mac? They seem to have a fatter Wi-Fi icon on non retina compared with retina macs.

 

[kmj2318]

This bug where the URL address is always selected is still happening.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Just keeps getting better.

Does light and dark mode change the appearance of the windows too, or does it only modify the menubar, spotlight, and dock? I'm curious if apps which already have dark interfaces (IE, Spotify) will be adding in light interfaces, or if they'll still only be dark. (Or maybe they'll have a super dark mode).

 

[Dephibio]

PS.....not sure if you have an iPhone running iOS beta on it.....if so, can you let me know if the handoff feature indeed does work with mail, safari, maps app?

Unfortunately, I have an iPhone 4S that it's not running iOS beta on it. Perhaps, someone else could help you.

 

[nutmac]

Is that really still the consensus? It's hard to imagine Apple releasing iOS 8 first and then Yosemite a month later because of the iCloud Drive changes. What are they going to do, have a warning on iOS 8 saying not to upgrade if you're a Mac user because it'll throw your iCloud versions out of sync? Once you move to CloudKit it breaks compatibility with < Yosemite/iOS 8 installs. That's going to lead to a LOT of upset customer calls.

That's a good theory but Apple pulled the same trick with iOS 7 (released on September 18, 2013) and OS X Mavericks (released on October 22, 2013). Apple disabled iCloud Keychain on iOS 7 until OS X Mavericks and iOS 7.0.3 were released a little more than a month later.

And considering how iCloud Photo Library app is still missing in action on Yosemite, just as iBooks was on Mavericks until late beta, I suspect there will be beta 8.

 

[drekryan]

Just keeps getting better.

Does light and dark mode change the appearance of the windows too, or does it only modify the menubar, spotlight, and dock? I'm curious if apps which already have dark interfaces (IE, Spotify) will be adding in light interfaces, or if they'll still only be dark. (Or maybe they'll have a super dark mode).

Just the System Menus, Dock, and Spotlight will get this. Developers are discouraged from making windows dark when Dark Mode is enabled and there isn't much of an API to check when dark mode is enabled. The short answer to your question is no.

 

[umzyi]

Does this look normal? Some text is bold and some washed out.

I have also noticed that after installing DP7, system font seems very thin or you can say washed out? Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[justperry]

Not sure if the pic will show in-line, but it shows that I have 370GB of audio files and 271GB of Photos, which are way off. I have maybe 500MB of audio files, and no photos on this partition. In fact, it shows my entire partition used when it is not.

I have the biggest HD of them all.

MacintoshHD ~ 70 TB

 

[throttlemeister]

Network location can now be switched quick and easily from the Apple menu.

 

[aarmstrong27]

Hand-off

Still no Hand-Off for mid 2011 MBA. Continuity works for messaging and calls across all devices (MBA, i5c, riPadMini), and all continuity features work between my devices, but still no setting in Preferences to turn it on in my MBA.

 

[iolinux333]

Still no Hand-Off for mid 2011 MBA. Continuity works for messaging and calls across all devices (MBA, i5c, riPadMini), and all continuity features work between my devices, but still no setting in Preferences to turn it on in my MBA.

Wow that really sucks. Sigh.

 

[Angra-mainju]

I have the biggest HD of them all.

MacintoshHD ~ 70 TB

You tell me exactly how you did that and I quit my current job and work for you

 

[rGiskard]

Ummm, why is the highlited "top hit" the least readable text on the entire screen?

I find it disturbing that such an amature mistake made it into a release without causing a sh*tfit at Apple. You know if Jobs saw something like that, he would scream at whoever designed it.

 

[Tyler23]

Ummm, why is the highlited "top hit" the least readable text on the entire screen?

I find it disturbing that such an amature mistake made it into a release without causing a sh*tfit at Apple. You know if Jobs saw something like that, he would scream at whoever designed it.

There were bugs with betas/Developer Previews while Steve Jobs was alive, too..

 

[Motawa]

dark mode looks like crap on my mb air 2013

Can someone explain how i can use spotlight with safari? Can i search(with google) or does it just look through the history?

 

[RandomKamikaze]

Network location can now be switched quick and easily from the Apple menu.

That isn't new to Beta 7

 

[lenard]

I've got my Mac backing up to a WD MyCloud EX2, and Time Machine works just fine. However, when it backs up, Time Machine never shows up on the desktop or the Finder sidebar. Just wondering if this only happens with a wired hard disk or a Time Capsule.

Has been like that for awhile, I like that because before you had to eject the disk after you were done.