Mountain Lion Download
Downloading Mountain Lion, shows in Launchpad as Downloading... I can't see any activity or progress to indicate something is happenning and how long approx should the download take, 2 hours, half a day. Rick. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
OK, sorry guys, now showing half downloaded. Rick. On 04/03/2013, at 10:01 AM, Rick Armstrong wrote: Downloading Mountain Lion, shows in Launchpad as Downloading... I can't see any activity or progress to indicate something is happenning and how long approx should the download take, 2 hours, half a day. Rick. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
I had no problems and now I have burn the file to a DVD. Easy. Yes, there has been a thread about burning the file but I worked it out myself. Thanks anyway. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 03/08/2012, at 2:35 PM, Tim Law wrote: Followup. Mountain Lion is now downloaded and the installer copied onto an unused and reformatted iPod 8Gb. I followed the instructions with pictures at http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/creating-bootable-usb-sd-card-mountain-lion-drive-2431/ which was provided by Daniel Thanks again. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:30 AM, Tim Law wrote: Ronni, I am deeply indebted to you. :-) Two things are immediately noticeable. One is that the download in the App Store is a strong 1mb a second. ie. I timed 10 mb and it took 10 seconds. This is very sweet. Second, that I used to have slow connections on iView (1Mbps) yet achieve good speeds with Speedtest.net. I couldn't figure it out. Now I am getting 4.5 - 5.0 Mbps on iView and it's up on the top level of their scale - totally different. :-) Speedtest.net is showing 15Mbps download which is about what I normally got. All these were tested with the App store streaming in Mountain Lion at 1mb/sec. So, the Lesson. Do not use OpenDNS as a DNS server. I assume it is okay to still use it as Search Domains Like we all say, THANKS Ronni. :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:15 AM, Tim Law wrote: Okay thanks I'll try that. I've left OpenDNS as the search domains, and changed the DNS server to those you gave me. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Followup. Mountain Lion is now downloaded and the installer copied onto an unused and reformatted iPod 8Gb. I followed the instructions with pictures at http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/creating-bootable-usb-sd-card-mountain-lion-drive-2431/ which was provided by Daniel Thanks again. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:30 AM, Tim Law wrote: Ronni, I am deeply indebted to you. :-) Two things are immediately noticeable. One is that the download in the App Store is a strong 1mb a second. ie. I timed 10 mb and it took 10 seconds. This is very sweet. Second, that I used to have slow connections on iView (1Mbps) yet achieve good speeds with Speedtest.net. I couldn't figure it out. Now I am getting 4.5 - 5.0 Mbps on iView and it's up on the top level of their scale - totally different. :-) Speedtest.net is showing 15Mbps download which is about what I normally got. All these were tested with the App store streaming in Mountain Lion at 1mb/sec. So, the Lesson. Do not use OpenDNS as a DNS server. I assume it is okay to still use it as Search Domains Like we all say, THANKS Ronni. :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:15 AM, Tim Law wrote: Okay thanks I'll try that. I've left OpenDNS as the search domains, and changed the DNS server to those you gave me. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download
Re: Mountain Lion Download
On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Okay thanks I'll try that. I've left OpenDNS as the search domains, and changed the DNS server to those you gave me. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out of 320Gb. Each night the permissions are reset by Super Duper before creating a clone. I'm at a loss at why this is happening. Next step will be to take to an Apple Store. Does anyone know if I need to take the Mini into the store, or whether they will put Mountain Lion on a USB drive for me? Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Ronni, I am deeply indebted to you. :-) Two things are immediately noticeable. One is that the download in the App Store is a strong 1mb a second. ie. I timed 10 mb and it took 10 seconds. This is very sweet. Second, that I used to have slow connections on iView (1Mbps) yet achieve good speeds with Speedtest.net. I couldn't figure it out. Now I am getting 4.5 - 5.0 Mbps on iView and it's up on the top level of their scale - totally different. :-) Speedtest.net is showing 15Mbps download which is about what I normally got. All these were tested with the App store streaming in Mountain Lion at 1mb/sec. So, the Lesson. Do not use OpenDNS as a DNS server. I assume it is okay to still use it as Search Domains Like we all say, THANKS Ronni. :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:15 AM, Tim Law wrote: Okay thanks I'll try that. I've left OpenDNS as the search domains, and changed the DNS server to those you gave me. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 11:11 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, That could be your problem, I've heard of Mac App Store download problems with OpenDNS. Perhaps try using Bigpond Western Australia DNS Server IP Address Primary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.242.33 Secondary DNS Server IP Address 61.9.226.33 Cheers, Ronni I DO use the OpenDNS servers as search servers. Perhaps it a Bigpond conspiracy :-) Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:58 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Weird, You don't have Growl or anything that could be preventing a download of this size? Are you using OpenDNS or GoogleDNS instead of your ISP DNS? You have checked your Modem/router? Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:55 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, No, nothing ticked in the System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies pane apart from Use Passive FTP mode. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, You aren't using a Proxies to connect to the Internet In System Preferences Network - Advanced - Proxies You need a direct internet connection. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 10:41 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Sorry, didn't mention that. Yes, there used to be that icon in Launchpad. It's now disappeared. I never had to set it going again during the various attempts, unless I paused it, then restarted. . It has kept going by itself. There is no Mountain Lion download in Applications folder. I never noticed it over the last day or so either. There is no Mountain Lion download in Time Machine in the Applications folder either. I checked back for earlier today when it was still downloading. Tim On 03/08/2012, at 10:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Have you opened Launchpad from the Dock and checked if there is a 'Install OS X Mountain Lion' icon showing there? Or in Applications? As I mentioned previously in one reply: If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. If you have to resort to a trip to the Apple Store they should be able to put the Lion Installer on a USB Thumb Drive. I would expect they will check that you have previously purchased Mountain Lion. You need a 8GB (or larger) Thumb Drive formatted GUID Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? Arrrgh. Once again, I have got to over 4Gb of download for Mountain Lion and the download has failed. I was not at the computer when it failed, so do not know what it had got to. The last time I looked it was 4.10Gb. It may have even completed the download. This download had taken over 36 hours, with no other normal processes breaking it. Sleeping the computer, other internet access, regular computer use, all occurred in that 36 hours. Restarting WILL lose the download I discovered. The error messages are at http://www.peoplehelp.com.au/images/Mountain%20Lion%20failed%20download.png I have been able to download other .dmg, including updates and new purchases from the AppStore plenty of times, just not this big download of Mountain Lion. I've searched through Console to see if it will tell me anything useful, but I'm not sure what I am looking for. Given my other downloads have worked, I'm guessing there is nothing in my modem or router firewall type settings that would be a reason for the download to stop so close to finishing. The Mac Mini's Hard drive has 80Gb free out
Re: Mountain Lion Download
Further to my last post, I just started the download again and timed 1mb took 27 seconds On a good day, I can get 1 mb per second with other downloads from other sites. Tim On 01/08/2012, at 1:58 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hi Ronni, Re Network - Telstra Cable. Generally get results of between 12 - 18Mbps on Speedtest.net In the App Store, I purchase Mountain Lion then clicked on Purchases pane and watched the paint dry as the download started Other updates, such as Pages and Numbers were coming through at 350kbps each at the same time, just Mountain Lion was so slow. The 'time left' would vary from two hours to 2 days, fluctuating up and down each few minutes. This went on for a couple of days. Some of that time, about 6 hours, we were shaped back to 56kbps, but once the normal speed returned overnight, I noticed no significant difference in the speed the numbers were changing on the download. Now and again, I would pause the download, then restart it after a couple of minutes to see if I got a better connection - if that makes any difference I don't know, but it never made any difference to the speed I was getting. The final crunch came when I had got close to the end and then a message came up in the AppStore that the download had failed, or stopped. It was in red. and the line that had shown how much I had downloaded disappeared like it had never downloaded anything. It's not the first time I've had problems with largish downloads from the App Store or iTunes. My son tried three or four times on his PC to get the last updates through for his iPad and iPod Touch updates. And I had to have several goes to download a Combo update a few months ago. It's just not reliable. Downloads just stop and disappear, gone to cyberspace. Yes I looked for the 'Paused' in the App Store. It's not there. Network is Telstra Cable Cable Modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5101U Router is Snap Gear 300 Computer is Mac Mini Late 2009 OSX is 10.7.4 Normally downloads and network connections are adequately fast and reliable. I'm in the middle of really needing my computer to work properly for me now, and don't need the distraction of this, so I was going to leave it for a while. I had assumed it was caused by server load. But if yours took 4 hours - wow, that's shows it CAN work and is fast (ish) :-) Tim On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:52 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours ( I was frustrated :) Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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There has to be a better way of doing this surely. I heard that if you take a thumb drive to an Apple Store, they will download it onto the thumb drive for you. Does anyone know if this is correct ? On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours ( I was frustrated :) Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Stephen, Yes, If you don’t have broadband access, you can visit any Apple Retail Store to get help with downloading. Under Step 3 - Download OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store: http://www.apple.com/au/osx/how-to-upgrade/ Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:50 AM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: There has to be a better way of doing this surely. I heard that if you take a thumb drive to an Apple Store, they will download it onto the thumb drive for you. Does anyone know if this is correct ? On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Sounds worse than mine. When I tried downloading Lion it failed after 7 hours and was not halfway ! Gave the idea away after that. On 01/08/2012, at 10:52 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours ( I was frustrated :) Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:52 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours ( I was frustrated :) Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Ronni, Re Network - Telstra Cable. Generally get results of between 12 - 18Mbps on Speedtest.net In the App Store, I purchase Mountain Lion then clicked on Purchases pane and watched the paint dry as the download started Other updates, such as Pages and Numbers were coming through at 350kbps each at the same time, just Mountain Lion was so slow. The 'time left' would vary from two hours to 2 days, fluctuating up and down each few minutes. This went on for a couple of days. Some of that time, about 6 hours, we were shaped back to 56kbps, but once the normal speed returned overnight, I noticed no significant difference in the speed the numbers were changing on the download. Now and again, I would pause the download, then restart it after a couple of minutes to see if I got a better connection - if that makes any difference I don't know, but it never made any difference to the speed I was getting. The final crunch came when I had got close to the end and then a message came up in the AppStore that the download had failed, or stopped. It was in red. and the line that had shown how much I had downloaded disappeared like it had never downloaded anything. It's not the first time I've had problems with largish downloads from the App Store or iTunes. My son tried three or four times on his PC to get the last updates through for his iPad and iPod Touch updates. And I had to have several goes to download a Combo update a few months ago. It's just not reliable. Downloads just stop and disappear, gone to cyberspace. Yes I looked for the 'Paused' in the App Store. It's not there. Network is Telstra Cable Cable Modem is a Motorola Surfboard SB5101U Router is Snap Gear 300 Computer is Mac Mini Late 2009 OSX is 10.7.4 Normally downloads and network connections are adequately fast and reliable. I'm in the middle of really needing my computer to work properly for me now, and don't need the distraction of this, so I was going to leave it for a while. I had assumed it was caused by server load. But if yours took 4 hours - wow, that's shows it CAN work and is fast (ish) :-) Tim On 01/08/2012, at 11:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, When you mention the Download fails... what happened, did you get a error message? Or has the download just paused / stopped? If when downloading OS X Mountain Lion and the download is stopped, click on Launchpad in the Dock and you will find a Mountain Lion icon with the word “paused” below it. Click on the icon and the download will continue. I found I had to do this often during the course of the Mountain Lion downloading. Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:52 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: OMG what sort of Network are you on Tim? My download of Mountain Lion took 4 hours ( I was frustrated :) Cheers, Ronni On 01/08/2012, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Arh 300mb to go after two days plus of it dribbling in, and the download fails. Grumble grumble. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Good afternoon all, I have gone through the process of purchasing Mountain Lion, including ticking the new Agreement box etc. but I have been unable to get it to download, when I click on the download button the little rotating wheel comes up for a couple of seconds then nothing. I tried to go through the purchase process again but it tells me that I have already paid so. Has anyone else had this problem?? (iMac 27, OS X 10.7.4) Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian, Sounds like the Apple Servers are still over loaded. Might pay to wait awhile longer to download. Cheers, Ronni On 26/07/2012, at 12:12 PM, iCloud wrote: Good afternoon all, I have gone through the process of purchasing Mountain Lion, including ticking the new Agreement box etc. but I have been unable to get it to download, when I click on the download button the little rotating wheel comes up for a couple of seconds then nothing. I tried to go through the purchase process again but it tells me that I have already paid so. Has anyone else had this problem?? (iMac 27, OS X 10.7.4) Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks Ronni, I never thought of that. I'll try again later in the day. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 26/07/2012, at 12:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Sounds like the Apple Servers are still over loaded. Might pay to wait awhile longer to download. Cheers, Ronni On 26/07/2012, at 12:12 PM, iCloud wrote: Good afternoon all, I have gone through the process of purchasing Mountain Lion, including ticking the new Agreement box etc. but I have been unable to get it to download, when I click on the download button the little rotating wheel comes up for a couple of seconds then nothing. I tried to go through the purchase process again but it tells me that I have already paid so. Has anyone else had this problem?? (iMac 27, OS X 10.7.4) Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian, Give it another try. If it does not download by now there must be a problem somewhere so post back. I managed to download last night and am now using Mountain Lion OS X 10.8. Regards, Carlo On 26/07/2012, at 12:18 , iCloud adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni, I never thought of that. I'll try again later in the day. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 26/07/2012, at 12:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Sounds like the Apple Servers are still over loaded. Might pay to wait awhile longer to download. Cheers, Ronni On 26/07/2012, at 12:12 PM, iCloud wrote: Good afternoon all, I have gone through the process of purchasing Mountain Lion, including ticking the new Agreement box etc. but I have been unable to get it to download, when I click on the download button the little rotating wheel comes up for a couple of seconds then nothing. I tried to go through the purchase process again but it tells me that I have already paid so. Has anyone else had this problem?? (iMac 27, OS X 10.7.4) Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks Carlo Ronni Seeing that I have apple care I gave them a ring. The problem was with the firewall, once that was off the download started OK. interestingly they told that I can happily leave the firewall off and I can uninstall ClamXav off I like as its not really necessary. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 26/07/2012, at 1:00 PM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: Hi Adrian, Give it another try. If it does not download by now there must be a problem somewhere so post back. I managed to download last night and am now using Mountain Lion OS X 10.8. Regards, Carlo On 26/07/2012, at 12:18 , iCloud adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni, I never thought of that. I'll try again later in the day. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 26/07/2012, at 12:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Sounds like the Apple Servers are still over loaded. Might pay to wait awhile longer to download. Cheers, Ronni On 26/07/2012, at 12:12 PM, iCloud wrote: Good afternoon all, I have gone through the process of purchasing Mountain Lion, including ticking the new Agreement box etc. but I have been unable to get it to download, when I click on the download button the little rotating wheel comes up for a couple of seconds then nothing. I tried to go through the purchase process again but it tells me that I have already paid so. Has anyone else had this problem?? (iMac 27, OS X 10.7.4) Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
