Apple Releases Second OS X Yosemite Public Beta, iTunes 12 Update

[ladoslo]

Does anyone use their mac at a higher res than the middle "best" option?

On my 15 inch rMBP late 2013 I use it at "more space" but when I boot up the res is at "best" on the login screen. Then when I login and the white bar starts loading about 1/3 of the way done loading the screen res changes back to "more space" so the top left quarter of the screen has it's blurred background and white loading bar but the rest has my un-blurred desktop and another loading bar in the centre. Once it's all loaded though everything stays at "more space". This happened in PB1 as well but didn't happen in Mavericks. In Mavericks the boot up login screen was at "more space" res. Hopefully I'm not the only one? (Long wordy reply sorry )

Other than that Yosemite is great! (Except the black volume and brightness boxes make them white again please )

i use third from the left, so smaller than best (retina)

i have no problems at all and i am running 13 inch rmbp late 2013 with yosemite pb2

 

[rmercier]

Not sure if it's Yosemite, but decryption when turning filevault off is now in it's second week for a 256 gb SSD on my mid 2011 MBA

 

[Matt-]

i use third from the left, so smaller than best (retina)

i have no problems at all and i am running 13 inch rmbp late 2013 with yosemite pb2

I changed my res to less than best (retina) and did a reboot and saw it looks like it's meant to which is frustrating because then I changed it back to "more space" and grabbed this screenshot of what I was trying to describe

 

[ladoslo]

i am getting heavy problems while running preview for big pdf documents with 200+ pages

its very slow and preview crashes everytime when i want to search

that should be a problem for me cuz i have to operate with big pdf files

 

[rmercier]

I wish for a checkbox to disable that sound, it fill me with dread and always chimes in and wakes the baby up or wife! Really wish that there was a way to turn it off or change its volume to be very very low.

I know it's not a fix, but I always make a conscience effort to mute my volume before restarting, if i don't want the chime to go off, so that chime doesn't go off.

 

[MI MacGuy]

I installed Beta 1 on my rMBP as a daily driver and literally had zero issues. Could have been the final product for me. This latest Beta 2 has been a few steps for me in terms of stability. Finder is restarting often, Safari is hanging for 5-10 seconds at a time randomly now. Haven't gone super in-depth yet with everything else but for the time being, I'm definitely feeling like a beta tester...

It's still usable so I don't find my life super inconvenienced. Almost all of the transparency effects look better in this beta and the new volume controls are nice. I do still have the boot sound as well.

 

[age234]

Screenshot iTunes 12

That UI looks awful. Needs a bit of a bezel around the "now playing" section and the spacing of everything is poor.

I remember when Apple's UI Guidelines explicitly did not allow something like this.

 

[Fangio]

Got the same error message initially in app store via 'purchases'. I must have clicked on the damn thing more than 10 times.

Not sure if this is just voodoo but I trashed the PB1 install app from my applications folder and all of a sudden it started downloading.

I was doing the download from within Mavericks though. I have installed PB1 on an ext HD. After downloading PB2 I just transferred the install app to the applications folder in PB1 and things went smoothly from there on.

Similar experience here, got the 1004 error when I tried to download PB2 for other machines.

Being on a cMP with several HDs/SSDs, it helped to just unmount all drives/partitions containing the PB1 Installer or any Developer Preview versions, that included the DP6 partition, external TM disk, and a bootable USB thumbdrive with the DP5 installer. Then the download of PB2 would start from my main system with Mavericks and configured to receive preview seeds.

 

[freeuser]

man is it slow!

Beta 2 on my FW800 SSD is now even slower, around 45 seconds to boot, compared to 25 with Beta 1, Mavericks 11 seconds. Unbelievable slow!

 

[judgedeath2]

PB1 made my MBP run hot... hopefully this update is better

Mine too, CrashReport was (almost) always eating like 20% of my CPU.

 

[rmercier]

PB 2 restarts take almost 2 mins for me.

 

[bigmikeinnj]

Boy I saw there was an update to the first public beta and I held off installing it until this morning. Just did it. I had the 1st public beta on my regular partition so I was stuck with it. (yeah I know not smart move). I had two frustrating wifi issues: I had nothing but trouble printing, even when I shut off the wireless option on the printer and went via the cable it'd still hang up, took a unplug of the power cord to clear it. In some cases 3 times.
My other issue was also wifi related. From the first day I installed the update my Time Machine backup would not run. I figured I would disable the function and since I had an intact backup on the Time Machine from before the upgrade to Beta 1 I'd live. Heck before I bought the Time Capsule I didn't have a backup.

So I was very pleased to see the wifi issues are now gone for me. I can print from my iPhone, iPad and iMac. Yeah. And my Time Capsule now works and backup took a while as I had 5.? GB to backup.

Now I just have to live with how pathetically small all the menu items look to me (I'm the guy with end stage open field glaucoma, legally blind). Joni Ive if you are reading this good sir could you add an option in Accessibility to make those items BOLD and DARKER so a handicapped person can actually see them ?? That would be nice.

Hope the rest of you with issues got them resolved.

 

[rmercier]

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[hellfried]

Have been on PB 2 for the past 3 hours and have noticed a significant boost in overall snappiness and safari is way faster than on PB 1. I am a happy camper

21" iMac late 2012 model.

 

[Dangerous Theory]

You can shut the startup "bong" off with the program called Onyx...if you have either ML or Mavericks as your main hard drive...go into those operating systems and open Onyx go to "parameters" then click on "login" and at the bottom of the page it gives you the option to turn on or shut off the startup sound/bong. Has worked flawlessly for me. Then when you boot into Yosemite you will not hear the "bong". Though, if you should repair permissions you have to run Onyx again.

I think you can just mute your laptop before turning it off to do the same thing.

 

[orioncrystalice]

Literally the only weird thing of note that happens on my PB1 is the Install Java message that pops up on startup. Yosemite PB1 overall is an improved experience from Mavericks for me. Reading the horror stories, I'm scared to take the plunge to PB2.

 

[MI MacGuy]

As time goes on, I'm having less and less issues. No issues with Finder for a few hours and no Safari freezing during heavy use. Boot time is still substantially slower than PB1 but other than that, feeling slightly better about updating.

 

[cmaier]

Yup, still unable to fix those clock icons. They're driving me nuts.

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i'm sure there will be no end of world clock extensions available once the OS is released.

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As time goes on, I'm having less and less issues. No issues with Finder for a few hours and no Safari freezing during heavy use. Boot time is still substantially slower than PB1 but other than that, feeling slightly better about updating.

I'm having only two problems. Inserting USB drives sometimes goes nuts and requires restart to resolve. And makemkv doesn't work.

 

[Diatribe]

Wooh, what's up with the new brightness, volume feedback?

Looks weird.

Sound is gone too.

 

[shanson27]

seriously! They've removed the "Translucent menu bar" checkbox on Desktop & Screensaver in System Preferences

 

[5aga]

Mine too, CrashReport was (almost) always eating like 20% of my CPU.

which model do you have? Mine 2012 cMBP. I ask because I've been having issues with my HD and not sure if its dying or if its just the PB

 

[Daenerys]

I realize that iPhoto will be replaced with Photos but can you run iPhoto on Beta 2? I couldn't run iPhoto on Beta 1.

iPhoto runs absolutely fine for me on Beta 2.

 

[BrooklynAl]

iPhoto

iPhoto runs absolutely fine for me on Beta 2.

Not for me keeps crashing...............Mavericks was such an easier beta then Yosemite.

 

[jsmith189]

While I've generally enjoyed the Yosemite visual upgrades so far, this latest iTunes seems a little... hmm.

 

[ladoslo]

Wooh, what's up with the new brightness, volume feedback?

Looks weird.

Sound is gone too.

SOLUTION: System Preferences, sound, sound effects and check play feedback when volume is changed