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How to easily switch between startup volumes

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Reader Robert Kapp would like a shortcut for a tedious task. He writes:</p>

I haven’t fully committed to running OS X Yosemite on my Mac, but I do it often enough that I find myself having to change from my Mavericks startup disk to the Yosemite disk every couple of days. Is there a faster way to do this than through the Startup Disk system preference?

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There is. I bounce between a couple of startup volumes each day and, like you, I find the required journey to this system preference a little tiresome. Because I do, I’ve created an AppleScript application that goes a little something like this (copy and paste it into the AppleScript Editor app):</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2867276/how-to-easily-switch-between-startup-volumes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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