I wanted to erase my hard drive and reinstall the system and the apps I primarily use. I followed the instructions from apple, but after I sign in with my ID and password I get the Error 1004 and "try again later".
Starting to panic a bit because I don't have a physical copy of Lion to do the install. How do I get around this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Gus
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Sign out of your Apstore account and then sign in again. That did it for me.
I wasn't able to access the app store because I had erased my hard drive. I signed out with my other computer, but in my haste to "do something", I already started the laborious process or reinstalling an earlier system. I'd wager your suggestion may have done the trick.
Same here, but sign out then sign in the Lion Reinstall window did not solve the problem for me. I still have the message "Error 1004. Try again later."
I am also having this problem.
I wanted to re-install Lion, and so wiped the partition and went to reinstall (which I have done once before successfully) and received the error 1004 after entering my AppleID.
Just as well I have a Time Capsule backup, else I would have an very nice looking MacBook Air paperweight right now.
Can we please have an explanation as to either what the 1004 indicates, or better still how to resolve it?
I didnt want to restore from Time Capsule, I wanted a fresh install.
Having the same issue here. Please give us a solution for this Apple.
Also having this issue.
Attempt to boot to Lion Internet Recovery by holding Command - Option - R while the computer is booting. You will have to choose your network and it will take a while to boot to it. This is a Recovery partition on Apple's servers for you to connect to. Should be able to install from there!
Unfortunately Internet Recovery doesn't appear to be an option for pre-2010 Macs.
Exactly same issue here!!
I'm moving from a 24'' iMac to a 27'' iMac. Yesterday I was able to successfully wipe the HD and fresh install Lion on the old iMac (I'm selling it), but now when I'm trying to do the same with the new iMac I get this 1004 error out of nowhere.
I've already erased the HD on the new one so I don't really know what to do. I've tried signing in with my current iTunes ID on another Mac computer and on my iPhone and it works seamlessly. I only get the 1004 error with the Lion installation on the iMac.
Please help 😟
This didn't help me either... 😟
I also have this problem on a 2008 iMac!
I'm selling it tomorrow and could really do with solving this! The iMac is stuck in recovery mode now if try to reinstall Lion I just get error 1004!
Anyone know if I could install from a DVD in Lion recovery mode?
I had the same issue with error code 1004..
I tried restarting my computer and reentering my apple ID several times and it eventually worked :)
Finally, a response from Apple! I called in not too long ago to ask about this. Apparently this is an issue with the server. Best option, other than to try repeatedly to get through, is to wait it out.
Hi guys,
I tried it again about an hour ago and it works!! 🙂 I'm reinstalling Lion now 😀
Hope it works for you as well!
How do I solve Error 1004 on Lion reinstall?
