Hi all, I downloaded Lion today and installed it straight away, then came across an article where you can make a bootable USB backup of Lion. to do this you need the installESD.dmg but apple deletes this file after lion is installed, is 2nd D/L allowed from app store or can anyone point me to a location where I can get it
Scion 🙂
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
A second download is allowed.
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can anyone point me to a location where I can get it
App Store --> Purchases
any idea how, cos when I go to app store it says installed?
Also looking for the same answer ? Anyone have any ideas ?
Are you looking in the Purchased tab in the Mac App Store or at the Lion product page in the App Store?
Hey Zachs,
Both pages say "Installed"
I'm having this same problem with Lion. I downloaded and installed the upgrade and then Apple automatically deletes the installer for you. The Apple licence terms even say you can install 1 physical and 2 virtual copies of the OS. How are you expected to do this if Apple deletes your download. The App Store won't let me redownload the file because it knows I already have it installed. Please make this process more clear Apple.
What they expect you to do is to re-download it on each computer. There ought to be an option to keep the installer or at least warn you so you can back it up yourself.
Already tried logging into my other machine and still says its installed. insane.
If your running a virturalized copy of the OS then it would be on the same computer that's what the licence terms allow you to do. I agree there should be an option to keep the installer it shouldn't assume you only want to install it once.
ok guys, been on the phone with apple for 47 minutes, all options to re download os x lion are showing status as 'installed' and are ghosted out, they got me to press the option key and right click on the lion purchase but it only shows up 2 options, 'copy link' or 'open link'. I was assured that it was ok to download lion installation file again but they don't know how to allow it.
they explained that a recovery partition is created in the event of software failure but couldn't answer me when I asked this question... in the event of complete hard drive failure, how in the name of almighty mac do I reinstall lion when there is no installation file.
I realise that a bootable usb backup could have been made 'before' installing lion but no warning is given that the installation file would be deleted and no option given to make such a backup was given during or before installation.
I think apple need to address this issue, after all if lion had been released on disc then I'd still have that in my possession and rightly so as I would have paid for it and could format or replace my hard drive as and when I like. but with this, I paid for an os installation file and apple physically took it from me by deleting it.
I have emailed the mac app store team to see if they can suggest a way of downloading it again.
go to app store , find the lion you purched and hold the "option" so that you can download it again
App Store > Click on Lion > hold down the Option Key (alt) > Click on Install > Type in Password for account > Lion will open launch pad and reinstall!
Enjoy!
(And this is confirmed!)
Hi,
What the App Store is really saying is that the Lion Installer is installed, *not* that it's being run (I know confusing isn't it)
Anyway also note that when you run the installer it self destructs so if you want to keep it save a copy first!
Regards,
Shawn
been trying this with apple support all morning, nothing happens when I hold the option key and click install
2nd download of lion??
