Having Trouble Finding/installing Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite Beta

September 22, 2014 4:19 PM

I have been using the public betas of Mac OSX Yosemite for a while now, and I recently had to wipe my hard drive and start over. When I went to download the installer again from the App Store today, Yosemite is no longer listed under my "Purchases" as it had been before. Am I the only one this is happening to?

My problem is really that my Time Machine backup is of Yosemite, and my machine is running Mavericks, and Migration Assistant will not work with two different operating systems.

Thanks, as always.

posted by 4ster to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Response by poster: Also, when I try to use my redemption code at the Appleseed site, I get a message that the code has already been redeemed, and no amount of refreshing the page will generate a new code.
posted by 4ster at 4:20 PM on September 22, 2014

Best answer: No, you're not the only one. There were several questions about this on Apple's support pages, but because of the restriction on publicly discussing the beta, they were deleted. (Google has cached versions if you hit the right search terms; "yosemite beta no longer in purchases" worked for me.) No official comments from Apple that I've found, though.
posted by dorque at 5:37 PM on September 22, 2014

Other things that don't work include leaving the beta and re-joining to get a new key, by the way, or any of a number of other solutions that Google coughs up which mostly are from the initial PB1 release. I had the same problem over the weekend and was hoping Apple would get to it today once business hours started again, but no luck yet.
posted by dorque at 5:40 PM on September 22, 2014

Best answer: Can you not do a restore to the Yosemite version in Time Machine (reboot and hold down Command R). That would bring back your system to the last known good Yosemite image.
posted by birdherder at 7:41 PM on September 22, 2014

For anyone else who may be looking, or if system restore didn't work: it's back in Purchases for me now as of this morning and it's happily installing on my secondary machine.
posted by dorque at 8:25 AM on September 25, 2014