Comments on: Re-Download Mac OS X Lion from the App Store

By: sylvia

sylvia — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:30:02 +0000

Found “Purchases”! I held down my right “Option” key, went to Apple Icon at left top of screen, and clicked on “App Store”. At the middle, top of the screen was the word Purchases. I signed in, option clicked on Lion, and it started downloading.

By: sylvia

sylvia — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:21:31 +0000

I am unable to locate “Purchases” from the Apple Store? Where do I look?

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:21:20 +0000

Hi. My black MacBook will support Lion but not Mountain Lion. So, I bought and installed Lion. I then installed Sparrow mail client and had trouble making it the default so in a moment of madness I trashed Mail App. I now want to re install Lion so I can get mail.app back, but it’s no longer on App Store.

Any suggestions welcome!

ian

By: Installing OS X Lion on unsupported Mac Mini - Max Lielje

Installing OS X Lion on unsupported Mac Mini - Max Lielje — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:03:06 +0000

[...] Grab the OS X Lion .dmg from the App Store. Here is how that works. [...]

By: tom

tom — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:17:08 +0000

i managed to download it!
except in a completely different way…
i continuously clicked on the logo of the app on its page, forcing the page to reload
then, since there was a tiny bit of lag between the loading of the page and when the button would revert to “installed”, i took advantage of that and clicked on the button. After that, the button switched to “buy now”, and I accepted. Since i’d already purchased the app, though, it gave me the opportunity to download it again for free!
problem solved ^_^

By: tom

tom — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:44:02 +0000

will this work with all apps?
or just with OS X Lion?

because i’m having the same problem with a different app that i tried to download.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:35:17 +0000

If you Lion came preinstalled you didn’t buy it from the Mac App Store and it’s only available on the Recovery HD partition. This article is about re-downloading OS X Lion from the Mac App Store after you have already paid for it.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:11:08 +0000

I have 13 inch MBP late 2011 lion preinstalled
Lion is not showing in my purchases
would you please tell me which procedure do you mean?

By: Lohit

Lohit — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:53:36 +0000

Oh Man I am just fed up of this Mac now. I have 15 Inch 2.2 Hz MBP which is 3 months old, and once I switch it off, there is no guarantee that it’ll switch on again. I lost my 400GB of data once when it didn’t start, took it to the Apple Service Center who reinstalled Lion. Now again after 15 days from that, my MBP isnt starting, though it is starting in safe mode, but it doesnt attach pen drive or external hard disk so I can’t back up my data. I tried reinstalling LION from App Store and when it downloaded, and I proceeded with the install, it “quit unexpectedly”. Then I tried downloading it through disk utility while restarting the comp, and mid way of the download it asks ” Do you want to cancel download?” with the options of ” Cancel / Cancel Download”. I clicked Cancel, and it cancelled downlod. This happened twice (i clicked the other next time, but no luck). I have no clue what to do next. Can anyone help?

By: Manesh

Manesh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:44:50 +0000

I bought Lion from the app store, but did not download it. I managed to get the software from CORE in SA, after proving to them that I had paid for it on the app store.

I have tried the option key, but it remains on INSTALLED – and does not change to INSTALL.

I can’t even update – because it says I need to log into another account (an email address @ core)

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0000

Thank you so much! Just was I was looking for!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0000

Thank you so much! Just was I was looking for!

By: Jared T

Jared T — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:55:25 +0000

To clarify my situation:

– I bought Lion on someone else’s Mac using my Apple ID.
– I then bought a brand new Macbook Air (but 4,1 version.)
– I changed my Apple ID
– I didn’t have to re-buy, but could re-download using Sean’s method combined with the blog author’s method.

By: Jared T

Jared T — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:53:29 +0000

BINGO! I actually just discovered this and was going to share it. I am glad I didn’t pay Apple an unnecessary $29.99, but instead unhid it. To clarify: I didn’t need to click the green Buy App button again!

Note: I had to “view my account” twice because I had changed my apple id email address recently.

I was trying to install Linux (first without refit, then with it) and somehow my EFI partition got wiped out (Disk Utility complains), and also my Recovery HD got wiped out. Fortunately the main Lion partition still boots for now. Eeep!

By: Mary Conlon

Mary Conlon — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:35:02 +0000

Worked perfectly for me thank now I can re-install my iCal