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OS 10.7 Lion recovery reinstall: AppStore "item temporarily unavailable"???

I am trying to reinstall my OS 10.7 as it seems corrupted.

I succesfully rebooted into Recovery (with internet), chose the disk (Macintosh HD), signed in to App Store, and then I get a window saying that "the item is temporarily unavailable"

Are you kidding? OS Lion unavailable from Apple ????

Anyone has any help to offer?

Thanks a lot in advance

iMac, iOS 7.0.5

Posted on Apr 16, 2015 9:40 AM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2015 9:41 AM

You need to sign in with an Apple ID previously used to download it.


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Apr 16, 2015 9:54 AM in response to Niel

Niel,

thanks a lot for your promptness and courtesy.

You may have a good point, as I am aware that under my current AppStore/AppleID I only find registered my iPad and iPhone.

I have been buying Apple computers since 1984 and I know that my 2 iMacs were bought when I had a different AppleID that I have no idea what it was.

I also remember trying to unify my Apple IDs and I did not succeed.

Any idea how to bring everything under one ID and, in the process, complete my reinstallation of Lion?

Thanks

OS 10.7 Lion recovery reinstall: AppStore "item temporarily unavailable"???

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