![]() ![]() It’s ultimately up to you, but there are a few factors to take into account. Of course, there have always been bleeding-edge early adopters who just want to see what all the fuss is about. Users of beta versions of OS X have traditionally been developers who wanted to test software on the new OS before release, or people testing the OS itself for compatibility with other apps, services, and IT systems. I’ve been accepted to the beta program (or I’m considering signing up). ![]() Multiple copies of important data are, as always, a good idea. Once you’ve installed the public beta, make sure not to entrust any important data to only your test Mac or drive. The last thing you want to do is accidentally overwrite your non-beta backups with data from your beta-test system.Īnd even if you do install the beta on a separate volume or in a virtual machine, you’ll still want to make sure you’re maintaining your main backup routine, just in case the beta inadvertently affects other drive or volumes. Good backup plan-ideally, a separate backup plan from the one you use to back up your main Mac or drive. Unless you’re going to install the El Capitan beta on a secondary Mac (or on a secondary drive or partition, or in a virtual machine) and you don’t care about losing data on that Mac or volume, you’ll want to have a Should I do anything special to safeguard my data before I install the beta?īack up, back up, back up. ![]()
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