Yosemite won't install

I downloaded the installer - run it - does what it should do to the point the iMac reboots.
After reboot it just returns to logon screen - nothing installed - no messages.
Disconnected all external disks /cables etc. No difference.
I am currently running Mavericks - tons free disk space/memory as well.
Any ideas anyone please?

Yeah, this happened to me on a friend's computer who is still at Mountain Lion. Never went to Mavericks because of Quickbooks. I would like to believe that clearing the PRAM will help, as it just kept cycling in a loop where it would install restart, give the error, and then start all over again. I finally shut it down and restored from a back-up(a day later) so that at least she could use her computer. I will try clearing the PRAM. I tried to find Mavericks to do an intermediate upgrade, but have not been successful as of yet....
Thanks Chris!

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After downloading Yosemite successfully, it won't install due to a "S.M.A.R.T. drive problem that can't be repaired." It says to back up as much as possible and replace the drive. Everything works flawlessly with Mavericks. What gives??

If you are getting a S.M.A.R.T. error then you should be more worried about losing everything on your drive then about upgrading your Mac OS. Regardless of if you are running Mac OS, Linux, or Windows, you should never just disregard such a drive error. S.M.A.R.T. is designed to give you a warning that your drive is statistically having far more errors than normal and should be backed up immediately and typically replaced.
In your case, it's likely a coincidence that your drive is failing at the time you are attempting to upgrade to Yosemite. You should stop what you are doing, backup your drive (if you don't already have the backups that you should prior to any OS upgrade), and replace the hard drive prior to moving forward.
To make it clear, your hard drive is likely going to fail soon and you may lose everything on it at any moment. This failure has nothing to do with Yosemite or any Mac OS. All hard drives fail at some point. Hopefully this S.M.A.R.T. notice has given you the opportunity to solve a major problem before it gets worse.

Yosemite won't install on my computer because the disk needs to be repaired. I verify, it indicates repair is needed but then the repair disk button can't be clicked. I tried to start in safe mode but it just froze.

I'm to install Yosemite but it tells me the disk need to be repaired. When I verify the repair disk button remains pale and in-clickable. I'm not sure which version of OS X I'm running but I do know I forgot to back up. Help me o-message board, you're my only hope!

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
First of all, open the Apple menu -> About this Mac, and tell us what OS X version you have.
If it is 10.6.x, you need the Snow Leopard DVD. Insert it, press the C key while your Mac is starting up, choose your language and go to Utilities menu (in the menu bar) -> Disk Utility.
If it is 10.7.x or higher, hold down Command and R keys while your Mac is starting up to boot up in OS X Recovery, and open Disk Utility.
After opening Disk Utility, choose your OS X partition in the sidebar (it is usually named "Macintosh HD") and press "Repair Disk". When it has finished, restart your Mac, make a backup of your files and try upgrading to OS X Yosemite.
The backup will help you in case you decide to go back to the OS X version you are using now. If you cannot make a backup and the disk repair does not work, you will have to format the hard disk.

Yosemite Won't Install (EtreCheck results)

I have attempted to download and install Yosemite on my Early 2013 MacBook Pro. It gets most of the way through the installation and then just stops. Nothing. For hours. I had to restore my hard drive from a SuperDuper backup. I've run EtreCheck and the results are below. Would appreciate any recommendations. Thanks.
EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)
Report generated October 28, 2014 at 12:22:15 AM MST
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Thanks. I'll give that a try. Other folks have tole me that some drivers may interfere with Yosemite installation. Do you see any drivers that should be removed?

Yosemite won't install, always crash after two minutes of installation.

My hard drive only got two months, and Mavericks always work fine. I got a Macbook Pro I7 with 8gb ram and 1gb of hard drive. Yosemite installation always crash after one or two minutes.And said scripts cannot save in the .OSInstallSandboxPathfolder, 'because there's a file with the same name.
Any ideas?

Hello rialebR,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
From your post it looks like perhaps the installer file did not download properly. I'd like you to please delete the current installer from your launchpad, and then download the installer again from the Mac App Store.
Enter Launchpad.
Click and hold on an icon until you see all icons jiggle.
Click the "x" button in the upper-left of the Mac App Store app icon you want to delete.
Note: If you do not see an "x" button, either the app is not from the Mac App Store or you are logged in as a standard user.
Click "Delete" in the confirmation dialog to delete the app.
OS X Lion: How to remove Mac App Store apps that appear in Launchpad
Mac App Store
Open Mac App Store.
Click Purchases at the top of the window. Your purchased apps will appear.
Click Install or Download.
Download past purchases
Take care,
Alex H.

Yosemite won't install on i-Mac running Mavericks OS

I have repeatedly attempted to install Yosemite on my i-MAC (late 2013 model) but always get the following message 'This copy of the install OS X Yosemite application can't be verified it may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading' shortly after starting installation procedure. I have doubled checked to make sue the day/time is set properly on the computer as this has been cited as the reason for similar message when updating OS to newer release(s).
I am going to assume this is attributable to the exceptionally long download times due to high traffic in the face of the Yosemite OS announcement.

Hello rialebR,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
From your post it looks like perhaps the installer file did not download properly. I'd like you to please delete the current installer from your launchpad, and then download the installer again from the Mac App Store.
Enter Launchpad.
Click and hold on an icon until you see all icons jiggle.
Click the "x" button in the upper-left of the Mac App Store app icon you want to delete.
Note: If you do not see an "x" button, either the app is not from the Mac App Store or you are logged in as a standard user.
Click "Delete" in the confirmation dialog to delete the app.
OS X Lion: How to remove Mac App Store apps that appear in Launchpad
Mac App Store
Open Mac App Store.
Click Purchases at the top of the window. Your purchased apps will appear.
Click Install or Download.
Download past purchases
Take care,
Alex H.

Yosemite won't install. Tells me to repair my hard drive, but repair disk button is greyed out!

Ive been trying to install Yosemite for hours. It gets to the installation phase, where it says it will take 22 minutes. Nothing happens until finally there is a message that says: file system verify or repair failed and to quit the installer to restart. I've tried that a few times, but I get to the same point. I also tried to go to utilities where I tried to repair disk, but it's not available so I'm told to do verify disk first and from there I'm told to repair disk, but the button is greyed out and I have no more options and a computer that is stuck in limbo!

Disconnect all peripherals from your computer. Boot from your install disc (Tiger?) & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.

Yosemite won't install on mac mini2.1 running OSX10.6.8

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MM21.009A.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.19f2
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It's not supposed to. That Mac can't be upgraded past Lion 10.7.5.
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I have an Epson printer on a Wifi network. Windows 7 desktop and and HP Win 7 laptop (my wifes) print to it just fine. My MacBook Pro running Yosemite won't detect it, and I have the latest driver installed. No problem when I had a Canon...

I have an Epson printer on a Wifi network. Windows 7 desktop is running the network, and my wife's HP Win 7 laptop prints to it just fine. My MacBook Pro running Yosemite won't detect it, and I do have the latest driver installed. I didn't have a problem when I had a Canon Pixma on the network, but when I replaced it with the Epson nothing seems to work. I go to add a printer to the queue and only the FAX function of the printer shows up - not the WS-4530 print function. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Please??? :-)

Hi Kelly,
As someone who has to print from my Mac to a networked printer at home all the time, I can certainly understand how frustrating it must be to have that fail to perform as expected. Let's see if we can get you up and running.
I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
OS X Yosemite: Printing troubleshooting
Start with the section titled Check the network.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Sincerely,
Brett L

My macbook pro early 2012 won't install release version of yosemite after being in the beta test

my macbook pro early 2012 won't install release version of yosemite after being in the beta test, anyone else having any issues with this?

Received an email from apple saying thank you for being in the beta test and they tell you to download the release version from the mac app store and install it. Done this twice and it says installed successfully after rebooting twice and doing the usual install of a new OS. However when it boots up and opens your desktop it still has the Feedback assistant installed and continuity and all the new features do not work at all. Making me assume that the final release has not installed at all. Spoke to apple on the Phone and they Don't know how to solve it. Except for doing a fresh OS Install. Which i would rather not do, but might have too. currently backing up my Mac as we spec to do it

Flash won't install on yosemite 10.10.2 gets to 25%

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2011s MacBook Pro won't install Yosemite neither reboot or boot into recovery mode.

Hello everyone, I've searched all around the web and didn't find a solution.
Sorry about my english, btw, I'm from Brasil lol!
I have a 2011s MacBook Pro, used to run Snow Leopard until 2 days ago, when I downloaded Yosemite and restarted the computer to run the installation.
During the process, it stopped at 22%, and said: FILE SYSTEM VERIFY OR REPAIR FAILED.
I tried to reboot on Macintosh HD as usual, but it's not possible, I can't unmount the HD to repair it, can't erase it and I'm a little desperate.
I have a good backup of important files on an external drive, so the best solution for me would be to format the HD again, with the Yosemite image which appears to be running at startup.
Command+ anything at startup doesn't work, probably because the Yosemite install is trying to run...
Any suggestions???
Thank you!

Hey Vince,
I have the same or similar issue. Please forgive my English, as I attended American Public schools
So last night, my MacBook Pro told me hey you want to download this free and amazing new OS called Yosemite?
(I'm adding to your post to hopefully grab more attention and then maybe grab a solution from someone out there..)
I thought yea, no, maybe, okay it's free, they say it is amazing-- why not?!?
So I downloaded and clicked okay to restart and install the new OS.......but it won't install the OS and I get stuck here on this screen.
I have tried restarting about 10 ties. I have tried quitting the install but it won't allow me to boot from Mac HD or my time capsule HD. I tried going into the menu options above but it won't let me repair or reboot or anything to get my MacBook to work again.
It is pretty frustrating. I went from having a working MacBook Pro to having a nightlight.
Vince- if you get a solution or a fix, Please let me know.
Thanks
john

CS5.5 Indesign upgrade won't install "update is not applicable" error

Upgraded to Yosemite, reinstalled legit CS5 InDesign successfully, need to download the upgrade to 5.5 for essential "shared content" plug in... the update won't install "update is not applicable" error w no serial code request, just doesn't install. Indesign 5.0 was working fine, i just need a couple extensions

you can update cs5: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/
but you can't upgrade to cs5.5.
you can upgrade to cs6 or cc (for money).

After effects 7.0 won't install on Yosimite

My after effects 7.0 won't install on yosemite OS
is there a fix?

No way. AE 7 (CS2) requires PowerPC support and Apple themselves have long pulled the plug on it.
Mylenium

Exit code:15 Adobe Premier won't install.

I got exit code:15 and Adobe Premier won't install it keeps stopping at 43%.

Sorry,
I am using a Late 2012 Mac Mini,
With OSX Yosemite (Version 10.10.1)
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
I couldn't find which version of CC, but I am 99% sure it is the newest one.
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