The OS X Yosemite was released to the public on October 16, 2014, after been announcing it on June 02, 2014 at WWDC 2014. The Apple Inc. Has added a number of improvements and new features to the Download Yosemite Installer so that many Mac users have already upgraded to it by now. It’s true that the Yosemite update is a bit older by now but, it is still the most famous and the often used. No preview available. A Hackintosh-compatible computer with an empty hard drive: This is the computer where you will install OS X Yosemite. It can be the same computer as the one mentioned in the previous point. If your computer already has Mac OS X installed, Yosemite Zone will just update OS X normally, without deleting any of your apps or files. Before you Installing OS X Yosemite make sure your Mac or your Hackintosh should support OS X Mavericks because all Mac’s as well as Custom build Hackintosh system who supports OS X Mavericks they can install Yosemite without any issue.On this article we are providing you OS X Yosemite Direct Download links which is based on DropBox and Google Drive so you can download it via any download.
Yosemite changes the look and feel of your Mac, from ever-so-transparent windows to a completely new Spotlight interface. But what hasn't changed is how you get it—following in the footsteps of Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite is offered as a free upgrade, newly available to download from the Mac App Store.
While installing Yosemite is not very different than installing Mavericks, you may have forgotten some steps from the last time. Let’s run through them now.
Before you begin
Excited though you are to install the latest version of Mac OS, there are things you should do before embarking on that installation. They include:
Be sure your Mac can run Yosemite: The good news is that if you’re currently using Mavericks, your Mac can also accommodate Yosemite—system requirements are the same for each. If you haven’t upgraded to Mavericks and aren’t sure whether it can run Yosemite, be sure that your Mac can be found within this list:
- iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
Apple tells us that, like Mavericks, Yosemite will need 2GB of RAM and 8GB of free storage space for the installation. Your Mac will run better with more RAM, so if you’ve been nursing yours along with just 2GB, it might be time to consider adding more.
Get an Apple ID: If you own any hunk of Apple hardware made in the last decade it’s hard to imagine that you don’t also have an Apple ID. But if you’re That Person, it’s time to get one. And it is because you can’t download Yosemite from the Mac App Store without such an ID. Again, Yosemite is free so you won’t see a mysterious charge appear on your credit card after the download, but you still need the ID to get a copy.
Update your apps: From the Apple menu choose App Store and in the resulting window click on the Updates tab and install all appropriate updates for your existing apps. Developers have been busy making their apps compatible with Yosemite and updating them before you proceed will make for a happier experience when you finally jump to OS X 10.10.
Back up your Mac: Mac OS upgrades generally go very smoothly these days, but if you were born under a bad sign, you could be one of the unfortunate few whose installation goes awry. Use Time Machine or another backup method to back up all your data.
Consider a clean installation on a separate volume or partition: With every OS update—mobile or desktop—there are people who make the switch and then regret doing so. It may be Yosemite’s new “flatter” look that puts them off or that Yosemite’s performance on their Mac isn’t everything they’d hoped it would be. By installing Yosemite on an external drive or a partition on your startup volume you have the option to experience it before making a complete commitment. If you aren’t satisfied with it, it’s a simple matter to boot back into your Mavericks volume. If you like what you see, go right ahead and install it on your regular startup volume.
Downloading Yosemite
As were the last few versions of OS X, Yosemite is available from the Mac App Store. To get your copy select App Store from the Apple menu. For the first several days that Yosemite is available, Apple will display a banner promoting it. (If you’re reading this months after its release, scroll down the page and look under the Free heading along the right side of the window. OS X Yosemite likely appears within the top 10 free downloads.)
In either case, you’re taken to the OS X Yosemite page where you can download Yosemite for free. Click the appropriate button to download it and then enter your Apple ID and password when prompted. The installer will start downloading and be saved to the Applications folder at the root level of your hard drive.
This download exceeds 5GB so if you have a slow broadband connection, be prepared to wait awhile. (If your connection is really slow consider starting the download before you leave the office or go to bed. It should be ready for you the next morning.) Note that if you’re downloading it on the first day of release, it may take longer to get to you than it would a a day or two later due to the large number of people trying to get their copy.
Saving a copy of the installer
As part of the installation process the Yosemite installer deletes itself once it finishes its job. This isn’t entirely distressing as you can always download another copy should you need it.
However, if you have more than one Mac that you’d like to upgrade to Yosemite or you prefer to have the installer around should you need to install a fresh copy at a later date without waiting for it to download, you must make a copy of the installer outside of the Applications folder. Do so and it won’t be deleted after the installation.
If you attempt to drag it out of the Applications folder, an alias of it will be created rather than a copy. To make the copy, hold down the Option (Alt) key and drag it to another destination.
To move it to another Mac, copy it over a local network or place it on a removable drive such as a flash drive or external hard drive that you then connect to another Mac. The Yosemite license allows you to install that single copy on multiple computers.
Begin the installation
Once the download is complete the installer will launch and display the Install OS X window, which contains a Continue button. Click that button and you’ll be asked to agree to the license agreement twice. In the next screen you’ll find a thumbnail image of your startup drive, indicating that the installer is willing to update your current operating system.
If you have access to other partitions or drives attached to your Mac, a Show All Disks button will also appear. To chose a different volume or partition to install Yosemite on, click this button, select the destination you’d like to use, and click on Install. In the window that appears enter your user name and password.
A pre-installation process begins where the installer gets the Mac and its destination volume ready for the job at hand. During this time you’ll see a gray progress bar. When the process finishes you’ll be told that the Mac will automatically restart in 30 seconds. You’re welcome to click the Restart button if you can’t wait that long.
The Mac then reboots, displays the Apple logo along with another progress bar. Then the Install OS X window appears with a blue progress bar and the words “Installing on [nameofvolume]” with an estimated remaining time appearing below the progress bar. Thrilling though this may be to watch, you may wish instead to take a break as the installation can take more than 15 minutes. When this is all complete the Mac will restart and you’ll be prompted to start configuring the OS.
Performing a clean install
After the Mac boots you’ll see a variety of configuration windows. Which you see depends on whether you’re installing Yosemite over an existing Mac OS installation or you’re installing it on a drive that didn’t previously hold a copy of the Mac OS (this is termed a clean install). Here’s what you’ll find when preforming the latter.
The first window asks you to choose the country where you reside. This is to establish time zone as well as location. At the bottom of the window you’ll see instructions for activating Mac OS X’s VoiceOver screenreader feature, which allows those with visual impairments to operate the computer. If you have such an impairment, you can get started with VoiceOver by pressing the Escape key.
You’re then tasked with choosing the kind of keyboard layout you use; a Wi-Fi network (if your Mac isn’t jacked into an Ethernet connection); and whether you want to migrate data from a Mac, Time Machine backup or startup disk, or a Windows PC. Choose to migrate data and Yosemite’s Migration Assistant launches and walks you through the process.
If you choose to proceed without transferring data you’ll be asked to sign in with your Apple ID (you can choose not to as well as choose to create an Apple ID if you don’t have one). You’re then offered the opportunity to share your location with iCloud so that your Mac can be tracked by iCloud’s Find My Mac service (part of the Find My iPhone scheme found on iOS devices). If you’ve enabled two-step verification for your Apple ID, you’ll next be asked to select an authorized device on which to receive a verification code that allows you to proceed with the installation. Enter that code when you receive it.
A Terms and Conditions screen appears next. You must agree to it (twice), otherwise you can’t proceed.
You’re nearly done. If you haven’t already set up an account on this volume (meaning that you’re performing a clean installation rather than updating an existing account) you’ll be asked to create such an account. By default Yosemite allows you to use your Apple ID as your login but you can disable this option and do things the old-fashioned way: Create an account name and enter and verify a password.
You can optionally add a hint in the appropriate field. Also enabled by default are the Allow my Apple ID to reset this password and Set time zone based on current location options. Switch these off if you like and, if you want to, double-click on the icon that the installer has assigned to your name and choose a different picture. (Or select Camera and take a picture with your Mac’s camera and use it as your icon.) Click Continue and the Mac will set about creating the account.
You’re now asked to set up iCloud Keychain, which holds passwords and account settings. You can set it up now and verify it, or skip this step and do it later. I prefer to do it from the get-go so that my preferred web sites and passwords are waiting for me when I launch Safari.
Finally, choose whether to send diagnostic data to Apple and/or crash data to third-party developers, click Continue, and your Mac moves to the Yosemite desktop, ready to use.
If you install over an existing copy of the Mac OS, you’ll encounter far fewer steps. Specifically, when installing over Mavericks you’ll be asked to choose a Wi-Fi network, sign in with your Apple ID, choose to use Find My Mac (and verify your identity if you’ve set up two-step verification), agree to the terms and conditions, and choose whether to share diagnostics and usage data with Apple.
Later installations
If you’ve come to this guide months after you initially installed Yosemite and would like to do so again—on the Mac you’re using or another one you own—there are a couple of ways forward.
Just as you could before, you can boot into Yosemite’s Recovery partition by holding down Command-R at startup, and in the OS X Utilities window that eventually appears, click Reinstall OS X, and then click Continue. This launches the OS X installer, which will download a fresh copy of Yosemite and install it on your startup volume.
Alternatively, if you no longer have the original Yosemite installer that you downloaded from the Mac App Store, you can get another copy by selecting App Store from the Apple menu, clicking on the Purchases link, and clicking Download next to the OS X Yosemite entry.
If the word Download doesn’t appear next to the installer, it means that the App Store believes you have a working copy of the installer already on your Mac. You should locate that copy and if you don’t want to use it—because it’s now a couple of point-releases old, for example—either compress it or remove it from your drive. Once you do, you should be able to download a fresh copy from the Purchases page. Winrar download 64-bit.
Welcome to Yosemite
You now have a working copy of Yosemite on your Mac. Although the installer has completed its job, there are a few things you’ll want to do before moving on. They include the following:
Check for software updates: Although you just updated your apps before upgrading to Yosemite, check the App Store again to see if there are new updates that are available only to those Macs running Yosemite. Install any you want or need.
Set up a Time Machine backup: If you have another drive attached to your Mac you’ll be asked if you’d like to use it with Time Machine. If that’s the purpose of that drive, allow this to happen. If you don’t have a backup strategy, this is a good time to devise one. The simplest way is through an external drive, but you can also back up over the network to a Time Capsule or some other kind of network storage. The data you save may be your own.
Add your printers: If you still apply ink to paper as part of your computing life, you’ll want to be sure that your Mac is aware of the printers you use. Launch System Preferences, select Printers & Scanners, and see if your devices appear in the list to the left. If not, click the plus (+) button and add them. In some cases, printer drivers will be built in. In others, they’ll need to be downloaded.
And a few tweaks for good measure: By default Yosemite presents an interface with more transparent elements—windows in addition to the transparent menu bar that we’ve seen in the past. If you prefer that Yosemite’s mien be more opaque, launch System Preferences, select Accessibility, choose Display, and enable the Reduce Transparency option. This same Display preference offers additional options for increasing contrast.
And if you still find OS X’s “natural” scrolling direction unnatural, you can reverse it by going to Mouse (if you use such a thing) or Trackpad (for trackpad users) preferences and disabling the Scroll direction: natural options.
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Familiarize yourself with Yosemite’s new features
And now your explorations begin. Yosemite has a lot to offer, including Spotlight and Notification Center improvements, Continuity and Handoff, iCloud Drive, and more. For that more keep an eye on Macworld.com—we’ve got you covered.
Back in the day when we bought OS X on discs, as long as you kept that disc, you always had a bootable installer just in case. Modern, downloadable versions of OS X create a recovery partition on your drive, but it's always a smart idea to make your own bootable installer drive too.
I recommend making one for Yosemite, on an external hard drive or USB thumb drive, for many of the same reasons I recommend making a bootable Mavericks installer drive: If you want to install Yosemite on multiple Macs, using a bootable installer drive can be more convenient than downloading or copying the entire installer to each computer. If you want to erase the drive on a Mac before installing Yosemite, or start over at any time, you can use a dedicated installer drive to boot that Mac, erase its drive, and then install the OS clean and restore whatever data you need from a backup. And if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable installer drive makes a handy emergency disk.
Macworld also has bootable-install-drive instructions for Mavericks (OS X 10.9), Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), and Lion (OS X 10.7).
As with previous versions of OS X, it’s not difficult to create a bootable installer drive from the Yosemite installer, though the processes have changed slightly since Mavericks. I show you how, below.
Keep the installer from being deleted
Like all recent versions of OS X, Yosemite is distributed through the Mac App Store. As with the Mavericks installer, if you leave the Yosemite beta installer in its default location (in the main Applications folder) when you install OS X 10.10, the installer will delete itself after the installation finishes. If you plan to use that installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you install. If you don't, you'll have to redownload the installer from the Mac App Store before you can create a bootable installer drive.
Create the Yosemite install drive: The options
I’ve come up with three ways you can create a bootable OS X install drive for the Yosemite: using the installer’s built-in createinstallmedia tool; using Disk Utility; or performing the Disk Utility procedure using Terminal.
The createinstallmedia method is the easiest; if you’re at all comfortable using Terminal, it’s the approach that I recommend you try first. (Note that the createinstallmedia tool doesn’t work under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—it requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later.)
The Disk Utility method is the way to go for people who are more comfortable in the Finder (though it does require a couple Terminal commands), and it works under Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite. The Disk Utility-via-Terminal approach is for the shell junkies out there.
Whichever method you use, you need a Mac-formatted drive (a hard drive, solid-state drive, thumb drive, or USB stick) that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data—I recommend at least an 8GB flash drive. That drive must also be formatted with a GUID Partition Table. (Follow this tutorial to properly format the drive.) Your OS X user account must also have administrator privileges.
Option 1: Use createinstallmedia
Starting with Mavericks, hidden inside the OS X installer is a Unix program called createinstallmedia, provided by Apple specifically for creating a bootable installer drive. If you’re comfortable using Terminal, createinstallmedia is a relatively simple tool to use.
As mentioned above, the createinstallmedia tool works only in Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite—you can’t create an installer drive this way while booted into Snow Leopard. If you need to create a Yosemite beta install drive while booted into Snow Leopard, you should use the Disk Utility instructions, below.
Here are the required steps:
- Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive, and rename the drive
Untitled. (The Terminal command used here assumes the drive is named Untitled.) Also, make sure the Yosemite installer, called Install OS X Yosemite.app, is in its default location in your main Applications folder (/Applications). This means that if you moved it before installing Yosemite, you need to move it back before making your installer disk. - Select the text of this Terminal command and copy it:
- Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).
- Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure that it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Paste the copied command into Terminal and press Return.
- Type your admin-level account password when prompted, and then press Return.
- The Terminal window displays the progress of the process, in a very Terminal sort of way, by displaying a textual representation of a progress bar: Erasing Disk: 0%.. 10 percent..20 percent.. and so on. The program then tells you it’s copying the installer files, making the disk bootable, and copying boot files. Wait until you see the text Copy Complete. Done. (see the screenshot above), which could take as long as 20 or 30 minutes, depending on how fast your Mac can copy data to your destination drive.
You now have a bootable Yosemite install drive. If you like, you can rename the drive from its default name of Install OS X Yosemite, though I think it’s kind of a catchy name.
Option 2: Use Disk Utility
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You’ll find Disk Utility, a handy app that ships with OS X, in /Applications/Utilities. Here are the steps for using it to create your installer drive. The procedure is a bit more involved with Yosemite than it was for Mavericks (which was itself a bit more involved than under Mountain Lion and Lion).
- Once you’ve downloaded Yosemite, find the installer on your Mac. It’s called Install OS X Yosemite.app and it should have been downloaded to your main Applications folder (/Applications).
- Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu.
- In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support; you’ll see a disk image file called InstallESD.dmg.
- Double-click InstallESD.dmg in the Finder to mount its volume. That volume will appear in the Finder as OS X Install ESD; open it to view its contents.
- Several of the files you’ll need to work with are hidden in the Finder, and you need to make them visible. Open the Terminal app (in /Application/Utilities), then type (or copy and paste) the following command, and then press Return:(This tells the Finder to show hidden files—we’ll re-hide such files later.)
- Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) and then drag BaseSystem.dmg (in the OS X Install ESD volume) into Disk Utility’s left-hand sidebar.
- Select BaseSystem.dmg in Disk Utility’s sidebar, and then click the Restore button in the main part of the window.
- Drag the BaseSystem.dmg icon into the Source field on the right (if it isn’t already there).
- Connect to your Mac the properly formatted hard drive or flash drive you want to use for your bootable Yosemite installer.
- In Disk Utility, find this destination drive in the left sidebar. You may see a couple partitions under the drive: one named EFI and another with the name you see for the drive in the Finder. Drag the latter—the one with the drive name—into the Destination field on the right. (If the destination drive has additional partitions, just drag the partition you want to use as your bootable installer volume.)
- Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure that it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Click Restore, and then click Erase in the dialog box that appears; if prompted, enter an admin-level username and password.
- Wait for the restore procedure to finish, which should take just a few minutes.
- Open the destination drive—the one you’re using for your bootable installer drive, which has been renamed OS X Base System. Inside that drive, open the System folder, and then open the Installation folder. You’ll see an alias called Packages. Delete that alias.
- Open the mounted OS X Install ESD volume, and you’ll see a folder called Packages. Drag that folder into the Installation folder on your destination drive. (You're replacing the deleted Packages alias with this Packages folder.) The folder is about 4.6GB in size, so the copy will take a bit of time, especially if you’re copying to a slow thumb drive.
- Also in the mounted OS X Install ESD volume, you’ll find files named BaseSystem.chunklist and BaseSystem.dmg. Copy these files to the root (top) level of your install drive (OS X Base System, not into the System or Installation folder).
- Eject the OS X Install ESD volume.
- You’ll likely want to re-hide invisible files in the Finder. Open the Terminal app, type (or copy and paste) the following command, and then press Return:
You now have a bootable Yosemite install drive. If you like, you can rename the drive from OS X Base System to something more descriptive, such as Yosemite Installer.
Option 3: Use Terminal
If you're a Terminal jockey, you likely know that most of Disk Utility's features can be accessed using shell commands—which means that you can perform the Disk Utility procedure using a few commands in Terminal.
- Download the Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store and make sure it’s in your main Applications folder (/Applications)—it’s called Install OS X Yosemite.app.
- Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive. Rename the drive to
Untitled. (The Terminal commands I provide here assume the drive is named Untitled.) - Open Terminal and type (or copy and paste) the following commands, one by one, pressing return after each to run it. Make sure each command finishes—in other words, you see a command prompt—before running the next command. Enter your admin-level account password when prompted.(During this step, you’ll be prompted to confirm that you want to erase the contents of Untitled. Type
yand press Return.)
You now have a bootable Yosemite install drive. If you like, you can rename the drive from its default name of OS X Base System to something more descriptive, such as Yosemite Installer.
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Booting from the installer drive
Whichever of the above processes you've used, you can now boot any Yosemite-compatible Mac from the resulting drive: Just connect the drive to your Mac and either (if your Mac is already booted into OS X) choose the install drive in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences or (if your Mac is currently shut down) hold down the Option key at startup and choose the install drive when OS X’s Startup Manager appears.
When your Mac is booted from your installer drive, you can, of course, install the OS, but you can also use any of the OS X installer’s special recovery and restore features. Depending on how you made your installer drive, when you boot from that drive, you may even see the same OS X Utilities screen you get when you boot into OS X Recovery (recovery mode). However, unlike with recovery mode, your bootable installer includes the entire installer.