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Lion Installer icon on dock after download - burn a DVD?

Using the up-to-date program, I download my free copy of the Lion installer.

AppleCare tech said I could download it by redeeming my registration code as described in the up-to-date information and install it later.

True enough: I downloaded during dinner - it took 3.5+/- hours when I checked again and the lion in the circle with the arrow sits on my dock and shows as "Install Mac OS X Lion" in the Application folder.

But, the AC techie suggested that I leave it on the dock until I was ready to install. She said don't remove it from my dock. I asked if there was any reason I couldn't remove it when I was certain it existed elsewhere - I really had to convince her this was OK.

If I see the installer in my App folder and have already made one HD backup of the iMac which includes the Lion download (and I will make another tomorrow) is there any reason I can't remove the icon from the dock? I can't think of any, but she was so convinced about my leaving it there and I had to work so hard to convince her that it seemed to me it would be fine to remove it, that I thought I'd ask you experts first before taking action...

And now that I have it, should I also burn a CD (or DVD - it's 3.77 GB) of it for security? Bit-by-bit no encryption I assume?

Thanks,

Mrs H

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 6:51 PM

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baltwo

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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 7:08 PM

You can safely remove its Dock icon. Rather than burning the Install Mac OS X Lion.app to disc, CONTROL-click on it->select Show package contents, drill down to the SharedSupport folder, mount the enclosed InstallESD.dmg, and use Disk Utility to restore it to DVD or an empty volume (partition) at least 4 GB in size. That gives you a bootable installer that doesn't get blown away when you do install Lion. Additihonally, if you copy it elsewhere, the copy remains intact after installing. Just my

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Mar 30, 2012 7:57 PM in response to baltwo

so already installed Lion when it first came out but i've re-downloaded it from the App Center to make a copy on a DVD... i have the installer in my dock and the installer window on my desktop but when i control click looking for the 'Shared Support' folder it just takes me to the next window which is the software agreement... i click 'agree' and control click and it just takes me to the next window which shows my hard drive above - and below says 'Back' or 'Install'... i don't want to install it again and if i control click on 'Install' will it begin to install or will it finally take me to the directory? what's waiting for me if i control click on 'Install'?

baltwo

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Mar 31, 2012 1:39 PM in response to dragonflydreams

Close the installer window. Click & hold the Dock icon->Options->Show in Finder. The app resides in /Applications. CONTROL-click it and select Show Package Contents. Then drill down.

Mar 31, 2012 4:27 PM in response to baltwo

you da man - so simple when you know what you're doing...

thanks!

Mar 31, 2012 4:32 PM in response to baltwo

i just noticed that now when i go to the App Store and click on 'Purchases' - my purchase of Lion back in October is no longer showing up... should it disappear if you download a 2nd time?

baltwo

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Mar 31, 2012 5:35 PM in response to dragonflydreams

Revisit the store and OPTION-click the Purchases tab. All of your purchases should show up. However, you might have inadvertently hidden it from display. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928 for details.

babowa

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Mar 31, 2012 5:50 PM in response to baltwo

Or could it be that MAS is detecting the extra Installer in Applications folder and therefore won't show it available for download?

Mar 31, 2012 6:23 PM in response to baltwo

well, again you da man... i must have inadvertently 'hidden' it (by accidentally clicking on the hidden 'X' to the left of 'Installed'?), but now the 'Installed' button for Lion in 'Purchases' is grayed out on the far right - and i think that's what i clicked on to re-download Lion... however there is now a box with a question mark in the far left column and when i clicked on that it brought up the install Lion page... so now that the DVD is burned, if i remove the Installer from my Application folder (as Babowa points out) the 'Installed' button for Lion will perhaps be clickable again...

thanks to both of you for the quick and workable responses...

Mar 31, 2012 6:37 PM in response to baltwo

and how do i give you guys the check-marks / stars with the points?

babowa

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Mar 31, 2012 6:46 PM in response to dragonflydreams

Only the OP (original poster) can award points (they appear under each reply so s/he can pick which post(s) helped or answered his/her question), so that is quite alright..... glad to have been able to help!

Lion Installer icon on dock after download - burn a DVD?