Unable to download lion from the app store

Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. More accurate information would be helpful here as it can become confusing when there is different information being displayed to that which is being explained. This tip is not working. But my brother in Scotland, who had downloaded Yosemite, talked me into doing that in November, Had to have a technician who I used before to put things right looks like he had silent problems too!

Apart from getting depression, I still feel I want to throw the pc in the bin. It succeeded installing but failed. Same as Rogerio says: December 23, at pm. Also, the iMac is already about 6 years old and I am uncertain how long it will live on.

Nevertheless, Apple really produce excellent hardware and that I am really happy to work on this iMac happily over these years. I agree its really hard to find if you have it legitimately. That is the one we find very good for our machines. This version of Mac OS X I have exactly the same issue. Still unable to download it on a newer iMac running OSX Can you confirm?

Luckily I had a bootable partition on an external drive to easily reinstall from. Also worth noting, it is technically possible to install a previous version of OS X than what shipped with your Mac. Your computer will check for updates, and show that an update is available for your Mac.

Download Mac OS X Update for Mac to improve the functionality and reliability of applications, services, and technologies within your Mac. Join or Sign In Sign in to add and modify your software. Improve this question. Gary Squires Gary Squires 41 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. There are workarounds out there, if you are willing to get a little creative. Improve this answer. Not true actually, Lion supports core duo's perfectly, it's just that apple has made a plist to exclude core duos from being eligible for Lion.

Yes i can, but you could have just googled it lol, which likely would have led you to this MacRumours link forums. Nope, don't have BootCamp installed. I do have Parallels installed but my Windows virtual machine is in one of my other partitions and my other boot disk doesn't have Parallels installed — Gary Squires. Alexander Alexander 7, 5 5 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 79 79 bronze badges.

The Overflow Blog. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions Assuming repairs are successful, try the Lion installer again. Otherwise, if nothing here has any positive effect and assuming the drive itself is not physically defective , the solution is to reformat the drive and start over.

Although not likely, you may lose your Internet connection after an otherwise successful install of Lion. There is a known conflict between Avast and Lion. As posted in an Avast forum thread , a supposed bug-fix update, still in beta, is available. Lion either does not redirect the packets your case or crashes. This bugs have been reported to Apple long time before the Lion release, but it is still not fixed by Apple.

After a restart, you can re-enable the Firewall.