Surprisingly, when I did a re-install using the recovery partition, it did use my previous system settings so it went on to my wireless LAN without incident. Since this was a first for me, I was very pleasantly surprised and shocked that the recovery partition would include VO; usually such environments are very much stripped down. All and all, through that whole process, my user settings were unaffected.
On 2/6/12, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Two solutions come to mind here. > > 1. Look at your past purchases. You will see Lion there. There will, I > believe, be an option to download again and you will not be charged. > > 2. Shut down your machine and then do the following. > > A. Press power then command+r. > > b. Now, after about 45 seconds after the sound, press command+F5 to start > Voice Over. > > c. Now, from the app table which occurs, choose to reinstall. > > d. A fresh version will download to your machine. You will be asked > whether you agree to the license and all that. Say no. At least, I think > that's how that second option works. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:21 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I am trying to reinstall my native lion mba without using >> wired ethernet. Is there a way to redownload lion from the appstore when >> it is already installed on your system? >> Thanks in advance >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> -- >> 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.
