Install Mac OS X Lion.app

Hi Gnarly:

Unfortunately, you won't. Once Lion is installed it deletes the installer app.

The solution is to make a copy of the "install Mac OS X Lion", first BEFORE you run it, and save it some where safe, I recommend burning a copy to DVD.

You may be able to re-download it for free.

-Robert

I found this tip for those of us who downloaded OS X Lion and installed it. I'm currently re-downloading it.

To redownload the installer on a computer running OS X Lion,

Open App Store

Press and hold the "Option" key while you click the "Purchases" tab.

The button to the right of the Mac OS X Lion item should change to "Install" (ungreyed).

Click "Install" to start the download.

Well, THAT got me a copy of the install file but this is silly. Apple should no delete the installer, I wanted to make a bootable DVD. ****, need to redownload.

So thanks for the hint, this works.

I understand your frustration with this but look at it this way - had Apple left the installer there would be some other people complaining that it is taking too much space on their hard drive 🙂