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OS X Mavericks Released for All Mac Developers as Golden Master Seed

seattle29 said:
Is it normal to recover so much free space?

I upgraded from DP8 to the GM and an extra 20 GB of free space appeared on my hard drive. I was worried it had deleted some of my photos/music/applications etc. but they're all still there, so it seems the free space came from a system area.

20 GB seems a lot to recover...
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Well, I'm not going to take this rotating round...I have reported a "space expansion bug" to Apple ;)
 
Making my flash drive right now. So far so good. Then all my Intel Macs will get it installed.

MacBook Air
Mid 2012
1.8GHz Intel Core i5
4GB DDR3 Ram
128GB Toshitta SSD
Intel HD 4000

MacBook Pro
Mid 2007
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB DDR2 Ram
64GB Kingston SSD
nVidia 8600M GT

iMac
Mid 2007
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB DDR2 Ram
500GB Seagate HDD
ATi Radeon 2600 Pro

-Will Update soon with how it goes-
 
tywebb13 said:
NO!

It is totally different in mavericks.

I won't bore you with the tortuous details of the change starting with DP1 (involving manipulating invisible files and other such shenanigans) . But one consequence of that was that apple then made a new createinstallmedia executable file made for precisely this purpose in DP4 without such shenanigans.

The method for the GM is very similar to DP4, but with slightly different file names:

After formatting an 8GB USB as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and naming it Untitled, run this in terminal:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

Be patient. It takes quite a while to complete.

But once it does, you can boot up from it by holding the option key down whist booting.
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Thanks for this-worked perfectly to create the USB drive install disk.

Here's why I want a clean install:

I've muddled with my system quite a bit for testing, and simple things that worked in the past no longer do so-I cannot, for example, stream music/video from the iMac to the PS3/Xbox. Various niggling slowdowns, etc.

I realize it will be a big undertaking to do a clean install, which I've done in the past, but I think it will be worth it for me.

Any thoughts as to simplifying the process? (For reference, I have a dev account due to the fact I'm part of a team working on a medical software for the monitoring of our patients-I'm far from a programmer, but on the team to develop the software)

Thanks in advance
 
I assume the process for a DVD is the same except I just burn it to the Disk as opposed to formatting and copying it to a flash drive, no?

EDIT: Couldn't wait, so I just upraded instead of clean-install it :)
 
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Mavericks has some really solid advancements, but I have to say that I'm a little tired of the brushed metal / grey look.

I'm relieved that Calendar no longer sports a leather texture; however, the grey is pretty darn boring!

Very much looking forward to Mac OS 11 as I'm sure it will have a big UI change.
 
Seems to be running smoothly!

I love the new Notes app. Hopefully Apple will adopt this subtle shade of yellow in an iOS7 update too.

The Calendar is harder to read, I think, and I get confused about which month I'm on when I'm scrolling. IMHO, swiping from month to month was much cleaner. Maybe this could be an option? It needs vertical lines between the days, like a calendar.

Contacts app looks cleaner.

I don't understand though why Reminders, Game Center, iMessage and Photo Booth have all been left in their pre-iOS7 design. This does not feel like a GM, and I'd be surprised if Apple altered the appearance of these apps in a minor update.

My OCD is not happy!
 
tob! said:
ml
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tob! said:
in my case it was at least 20GB if not more. (250GB SSD)

It's worth noting that i had hibernation disabled (and deleted the images). So it's probably not just a case of 'hibernation images got deleted'.

Where there any changes to HFS+?!
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jsolares said:
In my case both, an Air with DP8 and an iMac with ML both have more free space now.
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Thank you! That is great news.. I'm always struggling with space on my 256GB SSD since I have a partition for Bootcamp as well. That 20GB are totally welcome!
 
gavinstubbs09 said:
Making my flash drive right now. So far so good. Then all my Intel Macs will get it installed.

MacBook Air
Mid 2012
1.8GHz Intel Core i5
4GB DDR3 Ram
128GB Toshitta SSD
Intel HD 4000

MacBook Pro
Mid 2007
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB DDR2 Ram
64GB Kingston SSD
nVidia 8600M GT

iMac
Mid 2007
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB DDR2 Ram
500GB Seagate HDD
ATi Radeon 2600 Pro

-Will Update soon with how it goes-
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It looks like the GM installer is just like the DP's in that it's not straightforward to make a USB installer like one could with Lion and Mountain Lion. This procedure is still necessary apparently.
 
Risco said:
Both wrong, probably some chinese backdoor ;)

This is the official one

SHA1 016d4f28a34eedc57c8de300d77f9ca305215d0a
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Thats your SHA1 for InstallESD.dmg? my goodness (you probably werent far off on the chinese backdoor stuff then)

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ValSalva said:
It looks like the GM installer is just like the DP's in that it's not straightforward to make a USB installer like one could with Lion and Mountain Lion. This procedure is still necessary apparently.
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No it was posted a few pages back.. you can just use this command line -


sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

Replacing /Volumes/Untitled with the path to the hfs+ partition you created on the usb stock. It creates a slightly different installer to using the older method (I booted both, prefer the older method, out of familiarity more than anything)
 
Did they screw up the calendar app? If they don't have that monthly squares I'm going to lose my mind.
 
alvindarkness said:
it was posted a few pages back.. you can just use this command line -


sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

It creates a slightly different installer to using the older method (I booted both, prefer the older method, out of familiarity more than anything)
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Just remember that a usb installer made this way will create a recovery partition as well, but one made with the older osxdaily method won't. So most people will prefer to do it this way. It's also lot easier to do.
 
alvindarkness said:
openssl sha1 InstallESD.dmg
SHA1(InstallESD.dmg)= 7b4f4b188f13dd3eabdd86a1cbc433632bf41882

I'd like others to verify incase mine is off.
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Did you get this from Apple or from somewhere else? Everyone could just be matching up with the same bad file if it's not directly from Apple. If you know what I mean?
 
Risco said:
Both wrong, probably some chinese backdoor ;)

This is the official one

SHA1 016d4f28a34eedc57c8de300d77f9ca305215d0a
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You are not checksumming the InstallESD.dmg but the dmg of the app itself. (And the copy that is floating arround the internet, since the mas receipt should vary between users.)

People are trying to find the InstallESD.dmg checksum, the 7b4f.. hash has some google matches from 4chan hardly trustworthy.
 
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