Do I have to purchase OS X Mountain Lion before upgrading to Mavericks in Q4 2013?
I'm stoked about the pending release of OS X Mavericks later this year. A number of their improvements address concerns I've had in Lion that Mountain Lion didn't address.
I never took the time to upgrade from Lion (OS X 10.7.5 to be exact) to Mountain Lion earlier this year. Am curious if it's possible to bounce right to Mavericks later this year when Apple releases it, or if the upgrade path is strict for Lion users.
I know Mountain Lion will cost $20 for me to upgrade. I'm really just curious if Apple enforces a strict upgrade path.
More than likely any machine that can run Lion can also run Mavericks so an upgrade to Mountain Lion will not be required.
But we are just users here and the requirements haven't been addressed as yet.
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I have just purchased os x mountain lion on the app store. how can i see if it is downloading
I have just purchased os x mountain lion from teh app store. how can i see if it is downloading correctly and how long should it take?
If you click on Purchases icon in the toolbar you should find it listed with your purchases. There should be a progress bar showing.
The file is over 4 GBs. How long it takes depends on your internet service speed. -
Reinstalling mountain lion after upgrading to mavericks
I am in need to downgrade my current install of Mavericks back to the original install of Mountain Lion due to compatablity issues. One of my college courses software programs crashes alot under 10.9. A fellow classmate, still runs 10.8 on their 15' rMBP without any issues. I've attempted to do a "factory restore" but on the recovery HD, the only option of the reinstall appears to be Mavericks vice Mountain Lion. To complicate matters, my last known backup under 10.8 in Time Machine was no longer there. Any suggestions or solutions, if any, are greatly appreciated. Sadly, I had to resort to using my old Windows laptop for this course until the publisher issues a fix, in which, they say is coming soon.
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your external hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This will install the original version of OS X that was pre-installed when new. Hopefully, that will be Mountain Lion. -
Has anyone heard what OS will be needed to upgrade to the comming new OS? I am still running OS X v10.7.5 Lion on my MacBook Pro.
You need Snow Leopard or later as far as we are aware.
OS X Mavericks
You will find all the public information about OS X Mavericks here: Apple Releases Developer Preview of OS X Mavericks with 200+ New Features.
We are all users, too, so we don't know anything more about Mavericks than you.
For more information on the features of Mavericks see: Apple - OS X Mavericks.
Mavericks is expected to be released sometime this Fall. -
Can't purchase Mountain Lion. Upgraded my memory and OSX. I have a black Macbook (2009) will it work?
The Black Macbook was for Sale between 2006 and 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook
To Upgrade to Mountain Lion... Your Mac must be one of the following models:
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009) -
I have purchased the OS X mountain lion and want to re install after resetting my system but app store not showing it in my purchases. Do i need to re buy it and pay for it again for the second installation. ?
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Open App Store > Featured > Account > Show hidden purchases and unhide Mountain Lion. You can install Mountain Lion on all your computers for free -
Hi this is alamzeb , i have purchased OS X mountain lion from apple store and installed it on my macbook with the expect ion of making my macbook faster but it become more slow by installing os x , how can i solve this problem
alamzeb wrote:
Hi this is alamzeb , i have purchased OS X mountain lion from apple store and installed it on my macbook with the expect ion of making my macbook faster but it become more slow by installing os x , how can i solve this problem
Have a read under the threads on the Right hand side of this page under 'More Like This'
Pete -
by mistake i ereased my mackbook pro's disk. and when is restared it recovery page opened. and i did not purchase the osx mountain lion. do i have any other way to recory it without purchasing the copy of osx. ?can i do it using a usb having image file of mountain lion?
Did you buy your machine second-hand? That's really the only way you would have to purchase OS X 10.8.x from the App Store... but, yes, if you have a USB thumb drive with a bootable installer (such as made with Lion DiskMaker) you can boot from that and reinstall OS X.
Clinton -
I currently have OS X Snow Leopard and want to Update to OS X Lion, but it says that it is no longer available for purchase. Do I have to go straight to Mountain Lion?
If you need to purchase Lion call 1-800-692-7753 or 1-800-676-2775. Ask for a Sales Representative. They will check your Apple ID, and email you a code and instructions. The cost is $29.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download.
Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - Read the technical specifications.
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)
Are my applications compatible?
See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS.
For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Apple - Upgrade your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion. -
I have a macbook pro and the software with snow leopard only has upgraded to 10.5.8, do I need to purchase mountain lion to upgrade to 10.6.8?
Your machine likely can't handle Mountain Lion 10.8 nor 10.7, if it does it will run slow and very higly likely a lot of your third party software and drivers for printers and scanners won't function anymore.
It's because your 10.5 era (or earlier) machine is rather dated, hardware has advanced and is faster, the newer OS X versions have gotten bloated.
I do recommend you call Apple via phone and order the 10.6.3 white retail disks, backup your personal data off the 10.5.8 Mac to a external storage drive and when the disk arrives, stick it in and run the upgrade installer.
Once that's finished, reboot and use Software Update to get to 10.6.8 and stay there. You can buy stuff from AppStore, just don't upgrade to 10.8 (or 10.7) as thats when you'll have issues.
10.6 should run your currrently installed PPC software and hardware drivers. But 10.7/10.8 will not.
10.6 is receiving security and other updates from Apple as more than 50% of OSX users are still on it.
Most commonly used backup methods
Things to consider before upgrading OS X -
I'm trying to restore my MacBook Air but it tells me I need to purchase OS X mountain lion which I have but it says I haven't and I obviously can't put a disc in because MacBook Airs don't take discs. What do I do?
Thank you Terence for your help. I was able to restore my backup from my time machine ext drive to a new 1tb seagate ext drive. so i felt sort of ok. but yesterday that older ext drive i used for time machine wouldn't open! i called applecare and they trouble shooted with me and said it's probably a goner and data is probably corrupted. it's only a few years old and i'm very careful with it. my husband accidentally dropped my new drive last night -- i know, unbelievable, i was SO upset, poor guy -- but I'm so stressed with all of this. i have 10 years of photos and videos. so now i only have the one newer drive with a backup. i have to buy another one today to backup again so i at least have two backups. i tried to delete a ton of files last night to free up the 30 gb of space i need to get my full library back on my mac. i have 90gb free and deleted 7 years worth of photos i had on picasa that were in my "pictures" folder and also a ton or random photos and videos i had in that same pictures folder and thought that would give me the 30 gb but it hardly freed up any space at all! do you know why that is? all of this stuff is really a pain and really stressful. thank god i did have a backup in the first place but now i am panicked the one i have left will somehow crash. especially after my husband dropped the drive lastnight! it didn't fall far and fell onto a wood floor and seems fine, but after my older ext drive crashed yesterday -- and i lost my entire iphoto library a fewweeks ago off my mac -- i feel cursed. any answers you have would be great. thank you.
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I have tried to re-install Lion, delete different cach folders, etc., nothing is working - I keep getting the same message:
We could not complete your purchase
The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed.
Please can anyone be of kind assistance.
Thank you!
Zanjan FromerI have tried to re-install Lion
If you are trying to reinstall Lion, you need to use Lion Recovery
Why can't I purchase and download Mountain Lion? I get the following message: The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed.
For that issue, quit the App Store if it's open.
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar top of your screen click Go > Go to Folder
Type this exactly as you see it here:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
Click Go
Move the NetworkInterfaces.plist file from the SystemConfiguration folder to the Trash.
Relaunch the App Store and try downloading MLion.
***** Your post is rather confusing. There's a difference between reinstalling Lion and downloading Mountain Lion. -
HT202159 I have partially downloaded OS X Mountain Lion ...
I have partially downloaded OS X Mountain Lion. I lost my internet connection and my download stopped. I put my computer to sleep and took it somewhere else with a different connection to finish the download. Where I am, internet isn't very fast and so a download requires me to leave it on overnight . I got 3GB out of the 4GB the way there when this happened so I'd really like to avoid starting this over again.
When I go to purchases on the Mac App Store it says "An error has occurred" with a blank grey box next to it, and clicking it does nothing. Clicking "Check for unfinished downloads" also does nothing. Clicking "buy app" and it tells me I can download the app for free, and then it just hangs and nothing happens.
Is there a way to find the partially downloaded file on my Mac and restart where I left off?Same issue. I went into Activity Monitor and killed the stalled process. When I restarted App Store, the download started from scratch. I assumed that my earlier download had been overwritten, and sure enough, it had been. I followed these instructions to reveal the temp directory:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57480536-263/tackling-mountain-lion-downloa d-errors/
There was only one file in there (mzm.whodaifs.pkg), and it's the same size as currently indicated by the App Store progress bar. No 2.5GB file in sight. At least that's not going to sit around taking up HD space.
I've come across this other method for restarting downloads:
http://www.ryanragle.com/index.php?/site/comments/where-does-the-mac-app-store-d ownload-temp-files-to
Though it's now a moot question, I might try the debug menu method if it happens again. -
Purchased OSx 7 Mountain Lion on May 31st. After a virus in October
Purchased OSx 7 Mountain Lion on 5/31/13. After a virus in October & system wipe, I'd like to re-install without having to re-purchase. It was sent as an online update, so I don't have a disc (or the original e-mail, due to the virus). Couldn't restore e-mail from backup...
It was sent as an online update, so I don't have a disc (or the original e-mail, due to the virus)
It's highly unlikely you had any kind of virus since there are none that affect OS X. A Trojan or a couple of others types of malware, possibly.
Anyway, I presume "It" is Mountain Lion? If this purchase was from anywhere other than directly from Apple, either through the App Store or Apple's online store, then you bought an illegal copy from another vendor. As such, it's very likely that download of ML itself was laced with malware.
You should fix your tag line. iOS 7 and a 13" MacBook have nothing to do with each other. The iOS is a completely separate OS and is only for Apple's mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad. OS X is what runs Apple's computers, such as your laptop, iMac, Mac Pro and Mac Mini.
Your tag line also doesn't match up with your post. All late 2007 MacBooks came with Leopard, 10.5.x and can't run any OS higher than Lion, 10.7.x. So it's not possible you ever had Mountain Lion, 10.8.x running on that Mac.
If you did purchase Mountain Lion (much more likely, Lion) through the App Store, all you need to do is login to the App Store with the identical user name and password you make your App Store purchases under. You will be able to download and install your OS upgrade again at no cost. -
I can't download my purchase of OSX Mountain Lion. I get this message "The item you requested is currently unavailable in the U.S. Store" I click on the download bar and nothing happens. I'm at my purchases page App Store. I have Mac mini and OSX Lion.
After a little reading on the subject and talking to Apple support. This is how I solved this problem. With OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, they have LaunchPad on the Dock. The little bar underneath launchpad will start blue as you click on download. Also double click launchpad and it will show the picture of mountain lion downloading. I didn't know about my launchpad, until today. It will take a while because my high speed Internet only goes 1.5 MBPS. and I have 4 GB TO GO.
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