Already purchased lion, need to reinstall

I purchased Lion, and used it for several weeks. Then my "logic board" died and I sent the mac to apple for service. They returned it with Snow Leopard installed instead of Lion. How can I get lion back without having to repurchase it? (So my profile shows 10.6.8, but it SHOULD has 10.7!...)

Go to the App Store.
Login with your Apple ID.
Hold down the OPTION key and click 'Purchases' at the top of the screen.
In Purchases you should see 'OS X Lion' in your list and INSTALL to the right.
Click INSTALL and Lion should start downloading. After it's downloaded, click Continue to install.

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Hi,
Basically my computer is running on Snow Leopard. My father bought the Lion upgrade to install on his computer, however, it ended up being that his newly purchased lap top already came running with Lion -- thus, he never ended up using the Lion upgrade he purchased. Now, I would like to use the Lion upgrade he purchased but did not use to upgrade my computer to Snow Leopard. The information he gave me for this was the Web Order Number, Part Number, and Content Code for the Lion upgrade. How do I redeem/use his upgrade to update my computer to Lion without having to purchase another copy of the Lion software from the App store? Is that possible?
Thank you so much!!!

Unless he controls your machine (same household), you can't. At $30 USD, pop for your own copy.

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I am on my backup HD and want to update Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Lion. There's no Purchase tab on my App Store account.

Problem solved.

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We have recently rolled back our MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard (which came with the laptop) as we have had endless problems with Mavericks in using external hard drives and media servers on our home network. Basically it just does not work with them.
PLease advise how we can download Mountain Lion again, which we have already purchased.

Lion is no longer available in the App Store and it is no longer listed in my purchases, it was removed when I did the upgrade to Mavericks.
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Prodesigntools.com , go ahead and download the software from there and use your serial number to serialize it.

I don't know the account used to purchase Lion (it was already installed when I bought my Mac). How may I found it to reinstall my mac from scratch ?

My mac has issues with the software used to manage my hard drive and I have to reinstall it from scratch (the genius guy tell me that).
So, I have erased all my HD and try to reinstall Lion. But they ask me to login with the account used to purchase Lion and I don't know it since Lion was already install on my mac...
Do you know how I can find what is this account ? (I have already tried my 2 known apple account. Maybe there are others...)
Thanks in advance !

Thanks for your answer !
Yes, I buy the MacBook Pro new with Lion installed.
I have already followed the steps described in the section "Recovery system" of your link. (command-R, ...). But when I want to reinstall, they ask me to login with the account used to buy Lion (which I didn't bought since it was already installed)...
So, I'm stuck there :/

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Starla

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I would suggest you to sign in with your Adobe ID during installation and your product will automatically recognize your membership details.
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You are in the Adobe Reader forum. The wrong place for a conversation on Acrobat.
The Acrobat related forums are across the hall.
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https://acrobatusers.com/
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials
http://tv.adobe.com/product/acrobat/
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I don't know if that's true. If you RENT a movie you can only download it once, but if you purchase it you should be able to download it multiple times. If you purchase a movie, and delete it, you should still have it saved in the Cloud. Maybe you aren't showing purchases from The Cloud in your iTunes lists. To fix this in iTunes on your computer:
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I have purchased Lion but I need to re-install it.

How do I download it again? The App Store says that Lion is already installed.
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Read this :-
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Specifically
Install OS X Lion
If you completed your installation of OS X Lion, your installer may have been removed after your successful first login to OS X Lion. Mac App Store's Purchases page should show Install Mac OS X Lion as being "Installed", and disallow its download, when viewed from a computer running OS X Lion.
To redownload the installer on a computer running OS X Lion, press and hold the Option key while you click the Purchases tab. If the button to the right of the Install Mac OS X Lion item doesn't change to "Install" and allow you to download Lion, use Spotlight to search for "Install Mac OS X Lion" on your computer.
Launch the Install Mac OS X Lion installer you downloaded from Mac App Store. The installer should be in the /Applications folder.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Lion installation. Be sure you install Lion on the external storage device you've connected for this purpose, not your computer's boot drive.
When installation to your external device is complete, you can re-run Install Mac OS X Lion installer and upgrade the boot drive of your computer. A Recovery HD will likely not be created, but if you need to reinstall or repair your boot drive at a later date, you can connect the external drive you just prepared and hold cmd-r while restarting computer in order to boot from the external Recovery HD.

Imac won't reinstall osx. It says my apple id hasn't purchased lion

Hi, i recently decided to give my dad my imac (2011). So before i handed it over i cleared everything from the mac so it would be back to factory settings. All hat went fine. I then went to reinstall my operating system. Everything goes well until it asks me to enter an apple id. I enter mine and a message come up saying "this apple id has not purchased lion" as far as i am aware lion came with the mac when i bought it.
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The way i see it the only problem seems to be that i haven't purchased lion with my account. Is this the case?
Yes. Any 2011 iMac that did not have Lion already installed shipped with its predecessor Snow Leopard, and included system and applications restore discs.
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My Macbook is about 3.5 years old and runs with Lion. The System Preferences froze what in the process of changing the decktop wall paper. So I forced quit and repaired permissions/rebooted. That did not clear up the problem and I tried Verify Disk. The result showed that the is a HD corruption and I need to reinstall an O/S before I can repair the disk with the Disk Unitlites.
However, I purchased Lion through the App Store and the instructions state that I need to press Control-R to get the Apple menu that will start the process. ("OS X Lion includes a built in set of utilities in the Recovery HD. Restart your Mac and hold down the Command key and the R key (Command-R), and keep holding them until the Apple icon appears, indicating that your Mac is starting up.") This doesn't work but I wonder if that means hold these keys down WHILE or AFTER the restart happens.
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Control was a brain freeze... I meant command.... Bygones.
I did get it working and Lion is now reinstalling. The time estimate started at five hours but it's, thankfully, going faster than that.
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I need to reinstall lion but CANT????

i need to reinstall lion but it asks for my apple id and password, which then says this is not the apple id that purchased lion and therefore will not allow me to reinstall. help what can I do?
i called apple yesterday and they got me to do a secure erase of the whole hard drive, but now I cant reinstall lion as per the abve reason?????

I forgot to mention, I bought this mac book pro from ebay and cannot not contact the seller to find out what their apple id and password is. Therefore I need to reinstall Lion again, hapy to purchase it in order to install it, although not sure how I install it given I have the computer, but no operating systems came with it.
is it possible to install Snow lepoard instead? I have the operating disks for snow leapoard although when I put the disk in, and tried to start up from the disk, it came up with a black screen and jumbled writing telling me to restart, which I did, although it did the same thing.
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Already purchased lion, need to reinstall

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