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OS X Yosemite Beta Failing to Download for Some Users

Friday July 25, 2014 11:34 am PDT by Kelly Hodgkins

After announcing its OS X beta program at WWDC in June, Apple yesterday released the first beta version of the operating system to the public amid favorable reviews. For a growing number of people, the early impressions of OS X have not been positive due to a downloading issue that has prevented the installation of the OS.

Users in MacRumors forums, Apple support forums and on Reddit have complained about not being able to download OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store. These users have successfully redeemed a promo code and initiated the installation, only to have it fail during the download process. This issue has persisted more than 24 hours after the beta was released, suggesting it is not a problem with server overload.

Can’t get OS X Yosemite to download properly. Maybe it’s the limit I can download per month or something. Gonna go to Starbucks and try it.
— Micah (Trivol) (@TheMajesticW0lf) July 25, 2014

All Apple's online services are fully operational, and Apple support has not mentioned any potential issues that could interfere with OS X downloads. Several users have reported that using a VPN and selecting an alternative country such as Canada has solved the download issue, while others have chosen to delay the install indefinitely.

Apple's beta program has made OS X Yosemite available to up to a million new, non-developer users who now are experiencing the OS for the first time. Beta users can check out our first impressions post as well as our forums for troubleshooting tips, known issues and more.

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kahkityoong

8 months ago

I don't understand why people are having problems.

It's very simple.

Probably because you don't have a very big imagination.

Rating: 10 Votes

MarkusD

8 months ago

Happening at home and work.
Comcast at home
state provided internet at work

Rating: 5 Votes

jonbauer

8 months ago

Thank god a big blog picked this up! (that's my reddit post).

I've been trying to get this solved since yesterday at about 10:00 AM PDT!

- Jon

Rating: 3 Votes

mentaluproar

8 months ago

It just looks so cold and dead. Gone are the days of a friendly mac.

Rating: 2 Votes

samplane123

8 months ago

I got the e-mail, clicked the link, and it downloaded and installed in short order. I don't understand why people are having problems.

It's very simple.

It just won't download for some people, its nothing they're doing wrong.

I downloaded it last night just fine, I must have been lucky.

Rating: 2 Votes

Yeti89

8 months ago

I solved it!!

I have failed at least 50 times sincere yesterday.

Here is what I did.

I changed my DNS Server.

On another thread here I asked for people to share where the live if they were having the problem. I noticed no East coast locations.

I have Comcast and I also use an airport express. I opened airport utility and changed my DNS Server to the East Coast identifier.

68.87.64.146

I then started the download again and it worked. My browser acted slow and funny but the app store worked just great.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aiqu8aryxehj6g1/Screenshot%202014-07-25%2012.09.48.png (https://www.dropbox.com/s/aiqu8aryxehj6g1/Screenshot%202014-07-25%2012.09.48.png)

Rating: 2 Votes

TechZeke

8 months ago

Put me down for +1 for downloaded and installed yesterday evening with no problems.

Rating: 2 Votes

4jasontv

8 months ago

This means Apple is doomed...right? :rolleyes:

I'm so sorry. (Fellow CenturyLink customer here.) Took me 47 hours to download OS X Yosemite DP1. I wish I were exaggerating.

The worst part is that they don't care about improving service.

Rating: 1 Votes

theloon

8 months ago

Yeah .... lets all talk about how 'foo' does not download from 'bar' for the first 24 hours of releasing new shiny 'insert desired metasyntactic variable'

Rating: 1 Votes

ImmortalcooL

8 months ago

I successfully downloaded the OS X Yosemite beta 1 with no problem, I installed the OS beta on my VMWARE base on my observation, it runs smoothly and the performance is much faster than the OS mountain lion and mavericks. It feels like the same performance of the snow leopard OS.:D