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OS X Yosemite Public Beta Launches Tomorrow, July 24

I just reformated and reinstalled Mavericks a few days ago, not only to prepare for this, but for some reason my Macbook Pro became unusable. I mean dead, beachball of death even when I moved my mouse.

I have nothing on here now, no extensions in Safari, nothing. I’m looking forward to the 4 hour download today because you know one million people are going to be pinging the hell out of Apple’s servers today.
 
I keep hitting refresh in my email and cursing when nothing appear in my inbox.

Damn you Apple! Send me the code!

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NevilleB said:
I will partition my external hard drive for the installation of Yosemite Beta.

What is the minimum size that I should set for the partition?
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I'm going with 20GB. Plenty of room to give Yosemite a good workout.
 
ZERROZ said:
any sign of release today?
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We shouldn't see anything until another two hours or so; Apple releases them usually around 10 AM PST. So that means another two hours to wait. But don't worry, it is official because Phil Schiller tweeted it.
 
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When I put in my code for the Mac App Store it won't except it says it's already redeemed
 
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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If you're booting from an external source, then yes.

You should NEVER EVER use a beta version of an operating system on your main computer/partition. PERIOD. END OF DISCUSSION.
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I do it all the time... however... I keep a clone of my previous installation and I also have a USB installer of the last stable OS. OS X also has an emergency online factory restore setting on newer Macs if you don't have access to an installer. It's difficult to have issues if you're prepared. The people that ask that question probably don't have backups set in place, otherwise they probably wouldn't be asking that question because they'd already know the answer.
 
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DaveOlden said:
I haven't recieved an email with any code, but I successfully signed into this page (the same place I signed up for the beta).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s29t2pq2mz7gbi3/appleseed_page.png

Am I supposed to wait for a code to be emailed?

Signed,

Dave "Not Sure" Olden

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It wasn't emailed to me, but found the redemption code -- for Yosemite -- at the beta program page.
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What you're showing is for the Mavericks beta program. I think what you want is the Yosemite beta? Go to https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram and sign up there to get your code.
 
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