Hi, Ioana, Once the OS is installed, the installer package deletes itself. You could try looking in the applications folder for it on the off-chance it was replaced ther by the previous owner, but it's unlikely to be there. Sorry.
Teresa On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi Paul and list,Given that the previous owner downloaded the file, would he > not have an instaler somewhere on the mac? > Regardless, I did sign out of his account in the app store and signed in with > mine (I already had one for my iPhone) and searched for lion. unfortunately I > could not buy it since it showed a dimmed installed button. > I have the sno leopard dvd that came with the mac and I suppose I could erase > the drive and install from that and upgrade. > Any better way you can think of? > > assuming I have to do what I outlined above, how do I start? Have to erase > first and start the install from dvd? > > Thanks so much! > > A very excited newbie. > > > (Sent from my phone) > > Please check out my new CD at www.ioanagandrabur.com or on itunes. > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Iona, >> I don't think you need the apple id of the previous owner. However, you do >> need to get hold of the lion installer app. Which is over 3 gigabytes. >> Normally, you download this from the app store. Do you have an apple ID of >> your own yet? If you do, when asked for your apple ID, you can fill in your >> own, so that lion can be payed for, using your own apple ID. If you don't >> have one yet, you can create one in each dialog where you are asked for it. >> You can then put money on to that apple account using either itunes gift >> cards, attaching your credit card to it, or you can put money on the apple >> ID by using services like click and buy. >> >> Once you have the lion app from the app store, there is a way to burn that >> onto a dvd. Alternatively, you can put the installer on a usb stick. Either >> way, you then boot from cd or usb stick, install lion, all with speech >> support along your way, then perform software updates, and then start to use >> it by installing apps and putting your own data on it. >> But now that you still have a mac with someone else's installation, the >> first thing to do is get hold of the lion installer app. For that, you need >> an apple account or apple ID. Then you must make sure that you can do >> purchases with it, and then you can download the lion installer from app >> store. Let's start with that. If you have questions along the way, just ask. >> When you have the installer, say so and we can try to help further. >> Hth, >> Paul. >> On Sep 16, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> As I mentioned in previous posts, I have a 2nd hand mac mini with lion >>> installed that I would like to reset from beginning to change operating >>> system language and other settings. >>> >>> During install, do I require the Apple ID and password of previous owner >>> and purchaser of lion? >>> Could you recommend a guide of re--installing lion? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ioana >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
