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El Capitan Release time?

I actually like OS X Alcatraz, well done whoever said that.

Cappy is now on front page of the Dutch App Store. Can I download it? Hell no.

Edit: I checked and I can't download ANYTHING. That's probably punishment for my negativity about Apple Music.
 
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Anyone else still not see it? :(


EDIT:

DOHH! Kept checking in the updates tab, forgot they put it as a new install!
 
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Happy downloading everyone
 
Richdmoore said:
I stole this from Macworld:

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.

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Using the createinstallmedia command in Terminal
Here are the required steps:
  1. 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.
  2. Select the text of this Terminal command and copy it:
    sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction
  3. Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).
  4. 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.
  5. Type your admin-level account password when prompted, and then press Return.
  6. 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.
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EDIT: It looks like the command line is specific for Yosemite, I modified it to "burn" a usb drive with El Captain. I have not tried the USB it created as I am too busy with some work before I down the computer for the OS X upgrade.

New Line:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction
 
I probably let it run overnight and install it in the morning, it's half 8 here in the Czech Republic and I don't think the download time will pick up anytime soon unfortunately, it shouldn't start installing automatically or should it?
 
tomnavratil said:
I probably let it run overnight and install it in the morning, it's half 8 here in the Czech Republic and I don't think the download time will pick up anytime soon unfortunately, it shouldn't start installing automatically or should it?
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Mine has (literally!) stopped for 20 minutes, now started downloading at 3MB/s. Prague here. :D And no, it won't install automatically.
 
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I just received my new MacBook and preferably do a full recovery restore and want to ask if El Capitan is available through that option at boot up yet??? Thanks
 
navaira said:
I actually like OS X Alcatraz, well done whoever said that.

Cappy is now on front page of the Dutch App Store. Can I download it? Hell no.

Edit: I checked and I can't download ANYTHING. That's probably punishment for my negativity about Apple Music.
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Ooooo. I like Alcatraz too!!!
 
If you don't see it in the App Store as an update, go to the apple site for OS X and it will have a download link which opens it in the App Store. I couldn't see it and that's what I did to start it. Very fast download, 25 minute install though.
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1/3 of the way there...I hope it does not crash my system like the Betas did...kernel panics on any build past PR 3.
I had to reformat my HD and revert to Yosemite...:(
 
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