Last night it downloaded to 5.07 GB then restarted from 0 so I gave up and went to bed. Trying again today!
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Last night it downloaded to 5.07 GB then restarted from 0 so I gave up and went to bed. Trying again today!
I've been trying all morning. So far, no joy. Error after error after error... Really frustrating.
I wonder if I can get the file somewhere else...
- Jon
Nothing's changed
Frustrated! waited until the next morning and still the same thing. Do you think its because I have currently installed the latest mavericks seed beta? and that's not supported by the update? if so how do i move back?
Frustrated! waited until the next morning and still the same thing. Do you think its because I have currently installed the latest mavericks seed beta? and that's not supported by the update? if so how do i move back?
Yeah hopefully he has luck because i recently cleared my time machine past a couple weeks ago, not thinking about the mavericks update beta that was put on before that time. My external hard drive was full and wasn't backing up my machine anymore, and i wanted it working before trying yosemite.
I tried googling last night "download yosemite public beta without app store" but had no results. Really frustrating, just want to know how it is and if it's working. Totally fine if the beta itself is too buggy and i have to go back. Download issues are not what I want to be dealing with
I've downgraded from the appleseed once before, but I kinda forget how...
Either way I'm just re-downloading mavericks from the app store, and i'll try and reinstall from there.
Even though the redemption code and download went quite well, I can't say the same for the installation which I did on a 32gig flash drive. Even as the installation said it would take 16 minute, 8 hours later it finished and to my dismay instead of rebooting to my iMac Hd it booted itself to the flash drive and was a total excersize from hell. Thank God for backups. Arrrrrg!!!!!!
Save a copy of the installer
Just quit the installer without running it. The package is in the Applications folder and can be copied to another disk/computer for re-use. I would rename it too.
Just quit the installer without running it. The package is in the Applications folder and can be copied to another disk/computer for re-use. I would rename it too.
Huh? I installed it just fine on an external drive. Downloaded on to my internal, started the installation and chose an external drive to install it on.
Mind you, when I was booting back in to my internal drive, it was back on to the installation loop, so I reinstalled Mavericks over the old installation, using the 10.9 recovery partition, and it's been fine since.
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Just saw this now. Will try shortly.
Possibly a DNS issue?
So... after doing some research I saw that people are having the issue when their DNS is not set to their ISP. Mine was set to use one from unlocator.com
I have switched back to default and currently my download is at 1.67GB of 5.07GB. This is the farthest I've actually seen it go before jumping to the end and failing.
Fingers crossed!
So... after doing some research I saw that people are having the issue when their DNS is not set to their ISP. Mine was set to use one from unlocator.com
I have switched back to default and currently my download is at 1.67GB of 5.07GB. This is the farthest I've actually seen it go before jumping to the end and failing.
Fingers crossed!
Finally!
After attempting to download 10.10 approximately 80 times, it finally didn't error out and downloaded! I am no installing it on an external drive.
Wish me luck!
After attempting to download 10.10 approximately 80 times, it finally didn't error out and downloaded! I am no installing it on an external drive.
Wish me luck!
Success
It has downloaded and is now installing on my macbook. I'm doing all this remotely from work and have lost connection to my imac, and now have to wait it out until the macbook starts up again, but i dunno... could be coincidence but it does look like the dns was the problem
It has downloaded and is now installing on my macbook. I'm doing all this remotely from work and have lost connection to my imac, and now have to wait it out until the macbook starts up again, but i dunno... could be coincidence but it does look like the dns was the problem
Hm. I have Comcast and my DNS is set to the Comcast DNS defaults.
Also - I've tried to download with a VPN to Canada, but I can't seem to run the App Store after I've established the VPN. Did that help, awests?
- Thanx
- Jon
DNS issue
Just thought Id chime in here. Same issue for me ALL day yesterday. Error after error.
I just changed my open DNS settings back to ISPs settings per a previous post and it STILL failed.
UGH , for some reason I was hopeful.
One tell-tale sign was reaching 1.1GB and then revert back to 300MB
*sigh*
Just thought Id chime in here. Same issue for me ALL day yesterday. Error after error.
I just changed my open DNS settings back to ISPs settings per a previous post and it STILL failed.
UGH , for some reason I was hopeful.
One tell-tale sign was reaching 1.1GB and then revert back to 300MB
*sigh*
Finally after at least 75 tries lol, it downloaded and I installed it. One thing it's very slow, once I click on any icon, it hangs up for at least 30 seconds or more. Once I'm on a webpage on Safari it will hang on again. Takes forever to get around. Glad it's on a flash drive!!
I've been trying to download the beta since yesterday morning and kept getting errors (tried at least 50 or more times). As suggested in that Reddit thread, I tried connecting to somewhere else with my VPN (Canada) and BOOM! Downloaded first try!
Starting the install now on my main machine. Don't worry, I cloned my Mavericks install to an external drive with CCC. If something goes wrong I can boot from the external drive and keep going, and it only takes a couple hours to clone the old machine back.
Starting the install now on my main machine. Don't worry, I cloned my Mavericks install to an external drive with CCC. If something goes wrong I can boot from the external drive and keep going, and it only takes a couple hours to clone the old machine back.
Well, that's great news, however I shouldn't have to enlist the services of a VPN to get this download finished! Still trying since 10am yesterday.
Private Internet Access.
I agree, there's definitely a major server issue in the US that needs to be fixed. Just glad I got it downloaded in installed.
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Got Yosemite installed, took a really long time. Got stuck on 4 minutes for about an hour. In the installer you can pull up the log and watching it it was things like Matlab, MySQL, and LaTex that took ages to copy.
Two applications wont run out of the box, they are Matlab and VMware Fusion 5. To get them to run you have to run the executables located in "Show Package Contents/Contents/MacOS/". You can just make an alias to the executable.
For Matlab you'll still get a crash. You have to go edit the SystemVersion.plist in System/Library/CoreServices. Change SystemVersion to 10.90 (NOT 10.9).
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Sorry, my mistake. I meant the App folder. I didn't get anything in the App store & just went straight to my Apps folder. I was one of those that originally received the "code already redeemed" message. After going back and collecting a new code I was able to download Yosemite without mishap.