This item is temporarily unavailable Mac error

And you are back to needing to buy a secondary mac to fix the first one.

I find it very frustrating.

1) I can't use internet recovery for Lion (and that is the only option I get when using Internet Recovery).

2) If I try to contact Apple they tell me to enter my serialnumber and they tell me to pay money to answer my question. Since they removed the possibility to recovery my Mac they shouldnt charge me.

3) All solutions that comes up tell me to use some program solution to create a recoverydisk and that is only possible if I buy a secondary mac

I begin to understand the people telling me that PC is a better way to go since you can't get any good support on Mac.

have you managed to fix your macbook pro? I am having the same issue, cant figure it out how to fix it.

Well i got uptil the download part, but when i go to download it tells me u dont have enouh free space!!! the file is only 3.1 MB, so frustrating

I was running into this same problem because I was trying to use a different Apple ID than the one I used when I first got the computer. Signed in with my old Apple ID and it started installing. Guess OS X does need to be registered with an ID.

Just found a fix for this for my situation: I was re-installing the OS X on my daughter's 2006 MacBook to speed it up. After I erased the old HD and was trying to install the new OS (Lion, in this case), I was also met with the repeating "This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later" message. I called Apple Support and one of their fix options to was try another Apple ID - I had been using my daughter's ID. Since I purchased this MacBook, I tried using my Apple ID, an wa-la, it allowed me to download the OS X Lion!

I know the problem now, finally... App Store doesn't have "old" systems anymore, like Lion. You need to upgrade your hardware, to be able to have certain software. My MacPro 2007 started having this problem. Also have macbook air, macbook pro, airport express & extreme, an iPad mini and iPhone. I've been using mac since 2002. Gave my old iMac to my mum, and my Mac mini to a friend. Bought all their products, and trust me, I love them. But it is really childish of them that you cannot get old software anymore via the App Store... 😟

Oh yeah, and I have an iPod nano as well 🙂

Same problem - after trying again 100 times, I started to go the route of taking the MBP into the "genius bar". Poor experience with Apple's "genius bar" the past several years motivated me to think harder, so I did.

Here is the answer that worked for me.

I used the original Apple ID that I registered the computer with.

You are counter-helpful. You don't read someone's entire post or you don't understand English because the replies you post do not address the issues. Simply using the Apple ID the computer was first registered with solves the problem.

If you don't know how to fix something, don't tell someone what to do; it doesn't help anyone.

HI im having this problem with my MacBook Pro but I haven't wiped my hard drives, do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this?? Please help

You DON'T have to re-purchase Lion / Mountain Lion. Follow these steps - this was the only thing that worked for me.

1. Shut down your computer.

2. Hold down COMMAND - OPTION - R (keep holding!) and press the power button.

3. When an image of a spinning world displays on your screen, you can let go of COMMAND - OPTION - R.

4. Wait for the Utilities screen to reappear. When it does, click Reinstall Mac OS X.

5. From here, you will be able to reinstall Mountain Lion / Lion.

I was facing same problem but by Grace of God I have solved this problem by installing Mac os X Mavericks installer .. First I download Mavericks installer from this link... http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/mac-os-x-mavericks-free-downloa d/

then make usb bootable by disk utility.... You can see process in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAGlyS82Te8

If video not found you can search on youtube " how to burn Os X lion to usb dvd "

"Go in DISK Utility first put usb atleast 8 gb and before making bootable usb erase data and make single partition and click options and choose first option... after this click on download Mac os x Mavericks files and than click Restore and give Download Os x mavericks address in source file and usb in destination and apply it will take some time and make usb bootable..

After making usb bootable put usb in Macbook which this error is coming and by pressing command + R options come press Reinstall it install automatically.....

thanks

Yasir munib

hey good day is there any site i can dl maves coz the site you gave is not working anymore tia

Finally, I got the answer!!!

first, you download OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 from apple, then create a recovery usb drive, then plug in the usb into your mac. when it power on, press option to select use the recovery disk you just made. you will found you can reinstall a OS x 10.10.

This seems to be helping me....about 8 Minutes to go downloading Yosemite. Fingers crossed

For me the magic was to try my various Apple ID's until I stumbled over the one the computer was original setup with. Then it worked from the Recovery Menu just fine.