Yosemite OS X 10:10 – Prepare to install the beta
Today, Apple is expected to make available for the public beta of the future OS X 10:10 Yosemite. Do not be too hasty and weigh up if necessary to install it or not: this is a preliminary version and as such is still unstable, and not extensively tested with various bugs.
Here are some suggestions. According to various rumours, Apple today should make available from the public beta of the future OS X 10:10 Yosemite.
The preliminary version will be available as part of the ” OS X Beta Program ” that offers early access to Yosemite allowing a large number of users to test the release and send their feedback. The preliminary versions seen so far have been made available only to some of the developers and beta testers enrolled in the program Appleseed.
The house of Cupertino will send a code to the first million users who have registered or who register the OS X Beta Program available at this address. To receive the code by which the beta download from the Mac App Store anyway recommended great caution before installing the system. It is still a preliminary version and as such, with many flaws, bugs and problems identified. The distribution of the beta versions, on the other hand, serves to Apple just that: receive user feedback, identify incompatibilities and problems to solve before the official distribution.
If you have a Mac, and you use it only as a machine in your work environment, our advice is not to install the system, or if you want to do it, possibly to install on a secondary disk (eg a HD connected via USB). After downloading the installer (a file of about 5.32 GB) This part automatically, and you can specify the installation on a disk other than the main one. Holding down the Alt key when you start your Mac then you can at any time decide which system to start (the one in the inner disk or the one in the external drive).
If for various, reasons want to anyway to install the new system on the primary disk rather than on an external drive, we suggest you do a complete backup of the current system using utilities such as Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, CloneX or Paragon Drive Copy: in case of problems or remorse, you can return safely back without losing any data, applications, or settings.
The version that will be released as a public beta should be identical to the fourth beta already in the hands of developers. Various updates with the refinements of the case will be released in the coming weeks as usual with updates can be downloaded from the Mac App Store, until you get to the final version scheduled for the fall.
Recall that the installation is not necessary to initialize the main disk but this can also be done on an existing system (if they’re present OS X 10.6.8 or higher and that some features, such as, for example, those of continuity with iOS will obviously be used by those who have the beta of iOS 8.
Remember again that some features of the new system (eg the tips SpotLight) are optimized at the moment only for the USA. Even for iCloud Drive (a folder, similar to Dropbox and other services, provides access to iCloud like any other folder on your Mac), remember that the synchronization between multiple devices works only between those in which there is OS X 10:10 Yosemite and iOS 8.
Last, but not least, an important tip: when you spot a bug, you can report it using the built-in app called ” Feedback Assistant “.
If at this point you are ready to install the beta of Yosemite, read our tips (check the disc, cleaning) that we at the time indicated at the exit of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. They are all still valid and allow you to prepare properly and have the peace of having a ” fit ” before installing a new operating system.
