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OS X Yosemite Public Beta Launches Tomorrow, July 24

MrFozzie said:
I signed up for this and can not wait! Hopefully I am in the 1 million, I signed up straight after :apple: WWDC.

I would like to install on a separate partition but I have a bootcamp partition already on my rMBP and when I installed DP2 on a separate partition it messed up my bootcamp one and made it unbootable, I later found this to be a common issue where if you have a bootcamp partition then you mess with the partitions it will mess up the bootcamp one.

I managed to recover everything in the end and I am back to how I was but that was a confusing day.

Just a warning for people in my position, if there is a simple way round this I would love to know! :D

I will be installing Yosemite over Mavericks then as I do not need my laptop that desperately at the moment as I am a student and it is holidays, I also have Time Machine if it all goes wrong.
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Can you do a clean install of Yosemite over Mavericks WHILE preserving that Bootcamp partition just the way it is?

I'm in the same boat as you and I've been having problems with screen flickering on Chrome on Mavericks (doesn't happen with chrome on windows via bootcamp or from safari on Mavericks)
 
\-V-/ said:
Yes, just don't modify the Boot Camp partition.
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Does the installer itself give you an option to erase the mavericks partition? I'm guessing I'll have to make a USB installer and boot from there to do this right?
 
TMRJIJ said:
Not to mention Holographic projection, a iTunes Radio app, support for FLAC, and a refined Mail app that people actually use.

Apple may have a list of stuff to add planned years in advance like they did for iWatch.
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Support for FLAC? I doubt it.
 
69Mustang said:
Chupa:D

Need to edit this not to roll Chupa under the bus. Even if the roll back is as easy as you say it is, you kinda missed the point of his caution. Treat beta software as if it's beta software. Don't go in all willy nilly. Forrest & trees.
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Ah, absolutely. I rolled back because of such things; my vpn connections were disappeared after the update. Of course I could create them again but it was too much of a hassle.

It's just useful for people to know that if they take a TM backup just before the update, they have nothing to fear or worry about.
 
Question to those users who have been trying the betas so far:
Does Yosemite seems to be performing better compared to Mavericks, considering it's being rewritten in Swift (that's what people are saying) ?
¿how about its memory and storage footprint? ¿Any improvements?
¿Is it better optimized?

I'm also wondering if the new Macs will come with an Apple Graphics Chip to be more at pair with the iPad, and the new Graphics Engine....
 
Yosemite on MacBook Pro 15" (non-Retina)

Has anyone else heard that Yosemite will not look as good on the non-Retina Macs? Apparently Helvetica Nueue is too thin and hard to see on regular Macs. Is this true or is it only partially true?
 
MustafAminalhaq said:
Has anyone else heard that Yosemite will not look as good on the non-Retina Macs? Apparently Helvetica Nueue is too thin and hard to see on regular Macs. Is this true or is it only partially true?
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I've not been looking for it specifically, but I haven't noticed anything sticking out like a sore thumb either. Seems fine to me, so chances are you'll only see it if you're actually hunting for it.
 
MrRyanW said:
Does anyone know if Apple Remote Desktop works in the beta? In past betas it hasn't worked until an update was released on the day of the final release.

Any ideas?

Unfortunately I NEED to run this, but would love to test the beta.

Thanks!
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Buy a drive you can used as a boot disk. Install on that.

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SgtPepper12 said:
Support for FLAC? I doubt it.
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There are apps that support and play back -- and convert -- FLAC. Not the OS and not iTunes. They're not going to do it.

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JerTheGeek said:
FINALLY!!!!!! Have been waiting since June 2. Oh my gosh, cannot believe this is happening! YAAAAAY!

If I signed up at 4:27 ET on June 2 do you think I'm in the first one million?
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I must have signed up ahead of you, PT.
 
"When creating or making changes to documents stored in iCloud, your documents will sync only with Macs running the OS X Yosemite Beta and with iOS devices running iOS 8."

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/



that line is gone from the beta page.. wonder if that means it syncs with ios7 iCloud documents/data...
 
\-V-/ said:
Yes, just don't modify the Boot Camp partition.
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Just don't change anything to do with the partition mapping like the sizes of the partitions or anything, you can do anything on each partition like os installs but not the partition mapping as it does not locate the bootcamp one again after the change (I am no expert on this but this is how I have come to understand it from my experience, somebody please tell me if I am wrong I wish to learn)

jtg0511 said:
Does the installer itself give you an option to erase the mavericks partition? I'm guessing I'll have to make a USB installer and boot from there to do this right?
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I do not think it does from my memory so yes wiping the partition and doing a usb install might be best if you want a fully 'new' system but if it is just a problem with your mavericks then going to yosemite should solve these issues without losing your data.
 
Hello I'm (sort of) new to MacRumors Forums. I've browsed around here for a few months as a guest. I've used Macs for the past 7 years and love it! I signed up for Yosemite Public Beta and want to install it on my main hard drive, but on another partition. My testing iMac currently runs Mavericks. What I want to do is have the Yosemite install upgrade from the Mavericks install that is already set up, as I do not want to set up Yosemite with all my apps again. However, I don't want to overwrite my existing Mavericks install because, after all, this is a beta and weird stuff can and probably will happen.

My plan is to create the new partition (named Yosemite) and clone the Mavericks install to partition Yosemite using SuperDuper, then upgrade that to the Public Beta. Would that work?

Thanks for the advice all!
 
brunosh said:
Will it be safe to use in your main pc? Isn't it gonna be too buggy and cause problems?
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Been using the DP since day one and it's not bad at all. The latest DP cleaned up a lot of little bugs.. mostly lag in graphics, like Notification Center sliding out slow in older DP's. It's great already. :)
 
Wouldn't Apple close the registration if they hit a million applications? It looks to be still open to me.

I mean, a million is a bloody big number. Makes you wonder why they put a limit in the first place. I'd be surprised if they even get a million users registering quite frankly.

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saberahul said:
Going to install this on my main computer.
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Hehehe. I love a good antagonist. Well done!
 
I will most likely be installing this as soon as they allow me to. I signed up the day you could and pretty early on. I just hope it doesn't bog down my system too much ;)
 
delta77thegreat said:
Hello I'm (sort of) new to MacRumors Forums. I've browsed around here for a few months as a guest. I've used Macs for the past 7 years and love it! I signed up for Yosemite Public Beta and want to install it on my main hard drive, but on another partition. My testing iMac currently runs Mavericks. What I want to do is have the Yosemite install upgrade from the Mavericks install that is already set up, as I do not want to set up Yosemite with all my apps again. However, I don't want to overwrite my existing Mavericks install because, after all, this is a beta and weird stuff can and probably will happen.

My plan is to create the new partition (named Yosemite) and clone the Mavericks install to partition Yosemite using SuperDuper, then upgrade that to the Public Beta. Would that work?
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As far as I can tell this should work as long as you do not have bootcamp and you have enough space for all your stuff twice with enough space left to not slow everything down too much.

Do you not have an external hard drive to use SuperDuper to back up your system and use Yosemite normally on your main partition? If you use the two partitions the one you use mainly will become much newer in terms of files and data you have made that the other will become unusable or very hard to go back to without making all your changes twice, once on each partition as it will be out of date? I am only suggesting this as it sounds to me like you will use Yosemite as your main computer with the Mavericks partition as a backup in case of any problems? Of course if you have plenty of space for two partitions then your solution would work well and you will presumable delete the Mavericks partition when the public release comes out?
 
Hopefully this wont break my Parallels install. Desperate to check out Yosemite but I need a PC VM for work...
 
OSX 10.10 Fallback Strategy

Forgive me but I am a rookie, old, but still a rookie. I plan to install the OSX10.10 beta tomorrow. I have a current Time Machine Backup as well as a Carbon Copy Clone of my hard drive on an external powered USB drive.

My plan is to install Yosemite directly on my existing single partition config. I am currently running OSX 10.9.4.

Since this is not my primary system I feel that I have little risk but if I do have to recover - my two backups should be OK,

Right?
 
Klaatu63 said:
Forgive me but I am a rookie, old, but still a rookie. I plan to install the OSX10.10 beta tomorrow. I have a current Time Machine Backup as well as a Carbon Copy Clone of my hard drive on an external powered USB drive.

My plan is to install Yosemite directly on my existing single partition config. I am currently running OSX 10.9.4.

Since this is not my primary system I feel that I have little risk but if I do have to recover - my two backups should be OK,

Right?
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Nothing is 100% guaranteed, but you should be fine provided you know how to restore your system, should you need to.
 
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