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struggle4progress

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1. Well, I got about half way thru after 10 hours (?WTF) and then the download failed. So

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 11:26 PM

Jul 2012

I had to restart. It looks like it's taking off from where it failed, but of course I won't know until the whole download finishes and I try to install

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How I sorta solved my Mountain Lion download problem [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2012 OP

Well, I got about half way thru after 10 hours (?WTF) and then the download failed. So struggle4progress Jul 2012 #1

With my connection, this would probably take, er, cbayer Jul 2012 #2

yeah, it's ridiculous to force people to download, imo struggle4progress Jul 2012 #3

Mercury is Retrograde till August 9 Berlum Jul 2012 #4

Got it downloaded but now having no luck making an install disk or install usb struggle4progress Jul 2012 #5

OK, so if you want to make an install DVD apparently you need more than the 4.7GB on a standard DVD, struggle4progress Jul 2012 #6

So now I want to put this on one of my macs as an upgrade struggle4progress Jul 2012 #7

So I did the first update/install round on Lion, which probably took about struggle4progress Jul 2012 #8

Two rounds completed my updating for Lion. So it's time to launch struggle4progress Jul 2012 #9

oops. wait. first let me update my firefox, repair permissions on the disk, struggle4progress Jul 2012 #10

Time spent so far: maybe 20 + 10 + 2 + 2+ 2 = 36 hours struggle4progress Jul 2012 #11