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Opening
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Running the OS X Yosemite Public Beta
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Apple released the beta to the public
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If you were not already signed up, you can do so still here:
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Eventually you’ll get an email with a free promo code.
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If you signed up and you didn’t get your email try logging into the Public beta site with your Apple ID and you may have a code waiting there.
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Installation
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Preparation
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Backups for your Backups
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Time Machine and a clone like Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner
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If you want to get back to OS X Mavericks in some cases you may need to completely erase and re-install so you’ll want multiple backups
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Installation Choices
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Using a secondary Mac
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Not your day to day machine.
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This is the BEST choice as it’s not going to effect your day to day working
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Compatibility list:
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iMac (Mid-2007 or newer)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or newer)
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or newer), (15-inch, Mid / Late 2007 or newer), (17-inch, Late 2007 or newer)
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MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
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Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer)
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Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
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Xserve (Early 2009)
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Installing on a partition
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Should leave OS X Mavericks in tact
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Could lead to some complications due to the Recovery drive, be very careful
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Need at least 25GB of free disk space for the OS X Yosemite partition
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Create the partition
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Open up Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
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Select your hard drive and click on the 'Partition' tab
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Click the "+" button to create a new partition
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Name the partition. Something "obvious", like "OS X Yosemite"
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Set the format to "OS X Extended (Journaled)" and set the size to at least 15GB, larger is better
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Click "Apply" to create the partition
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Download the installer and it should run automatically. Can also be found in Applications/Install OS X Yosemite Beta.app
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Make sure you select your partition as the destination. May need to click "Show all disks" from the disk selection screen.
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Hold the 'Option' key down during boot-up to select the partition to boot from
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If you find the OS X Mavericks partition seems to be missing, try choosing the partition from System Preferences > Startup Disk before rebooting.
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Install on a second drive
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You’ll want a fast drive, at least USB 3 or Firewire or Thunderbolt.
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SSD or fast Flash drive could do.
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At least 16GB drive
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Format the destination drive as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and give it an obvious name.
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In the partition tab click "Options…" and be sure to pick 'GUID Partition Table'
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Run the installer and choose your external drive as the destination
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Note the experience might be much slower than running off an internal drive.
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Using OS X Yosemite
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User Interface & Features
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Finder
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Green "stoplight" button now defaults to "full screen" toggle. Hold down 'Option' and click to get maximize function
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Batch renaming in Finder
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Select multiple items and right+click.
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Enable "Dark" mode
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System Preferences > General
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Check the box for "Use dark menu bar and Dock."
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Note many 3rd party apps might not yet be supported in "dark" mode
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Dashboard can run as "Overlay", like it use to. Find the setting in the Mission Control Preferences
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Spotlight
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Search is now front and center and global
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Will search local files and documents as well as web information
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Get iTunes Store results, Wikipedia, Bing results along with file results, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Apps, etc.
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Can now do 'currency' conversions. Just enter a "dollar" amount
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Spotlight suggestions are currently U.S.-only.
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iCloud Drive
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If you migrate to iCloud Drive, documents stored in iCloud Drive will sync only between Macs running the OS X Yosemite beta and iPhones, iPads and iPods running iOS 8.
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Safari
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Click on the address bar to see your top bookmarks and most frequently visited sites
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Show all tabs icon (similar to iOS). Gives a "grid" view with previews and multiple tabs for the same site grouped together. iCloud tabs appear below the local tabs.
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If your tabs exceed the window they now scroll horizontally
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iTunes 12
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New "red" icon
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Sidebar now only shows up in Playlist view
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Music, TV, Videos etc. are now "menubar" style icons
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iTunes list view is still available but it’s in a drop-down on the right of the navigation bar as “Song List” with various user parameters (e.g., Song List by Album, Song List by Artist).
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QuickTime
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Can screen capture audio and video from a connected IOS Device
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Other stuff
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"Markup" in Preview is an Extension (System Preferences > Extensions)
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Bugs & Issues
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Feedback Assistant app
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This is an included App you can (and should) use to report bugs and issues you discover.
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The App will walk you through reporting the issue.
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Remember to provide as much detail as possible.
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Also use it to provide general feedback.
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Roaring Apps
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They are updating their list to show OS X Yosemite compatibility
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Handoff & Continuity
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Many of these features relay on also having an iOS 8 device and iOS 8 is only available to Developers
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Rolling back
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If you went the "partition" route, you’ll need to use Disk Utility from the recovery partition to erase your drive
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Then re-install OS X Mavericks
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Then use the Migration Assistant with your OS X Mavericks backups to get back
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Closing
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Feedback
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Hotline: 281-MAC-I-AM-9 (281) 622-4269
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Skype: themaccast
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