Downloading Lion after Mountain Lion release.

After Mountain Lion came out, I cannot redownload OS X Lion from the App Store. How would I go about doing this? Any help is appreciated. I am on a late 2008 15 inch macbook pro core2duo with 2 gigs of ram.

Under Apple's new policy you need to call Apple Customer Support and purchase a download code to use in the Mac App Store in order to access the Lion download. I believe it still costs about $19 US.
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You actually can. If you call in to apple and ask for lion, they will email you an app store code that can be redeemed.
Apple's number: 1-800-275-2273

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HI After I upgraded to 10.8 mountain lion I have since struggled to download firefox and adobe flash (get the error image file corrupted). Also I can't download in itunes (get error 50 or 8000).
I have tried:
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Recovery boot and re download of mountain lion but at this point it said 98 hrs for the download to take place and just stopped downloading.
Does anyone have any ideas or does it need a reinstall from time machine. Idon't really want to do this as I've got photos etc that are from the last two weeks on there.
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I enclose a screenshot of the error
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1. Do a backup
2. Open App Store > Purchases, download Mountain Lion and install it under Mountain Lion

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If possible, connect to your router with an Ethernet cable and turn off Wi-Fi. Test.

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I have installed mountain lion 10.8.2 form the app store and i am not happy. many of my apps seem to have dissapeared, and some games, such as the sims 3 refuse to run. I also cannot find many of the files to uninstall and reinstall it properly, such as the files in the library folder, appear not to be there at all, even after a reinstallation.
I'm properly annoyed with mountain lion, and i would like to go back to lion. I backed up my lion system using time machine to a usb drive. My question is, is it possible to reinstall lion using this backup? I have been reading a lot of conflicting information online about whether or not it changes the recovery partition back to lion or not, or even if it works at all.
Lion worked fine for me, Mountain lion doesn't, and I want it back!

Thanks again,
It only shows one sparsebundle file (for my computer, my GFs also backsup to the same TC) and there is only one folder shown inside.
I did have some problems copying files in Finder from the mounted sparsebundle to my Documents folder because it was giving me "volume has wrong case sensitivity for backup". However I searched for that error and found that you referred to one of your unix guys and said that I should use:
ditto --noacl /path/to/source /path/to/target
This is working to copy the files that are there. I know that because its in a .inProgress file something seems to have been messed up on the Time Capsule and some files maybe missing, even though i ran the backup a few times this weekend and it always said completed successfully
However the important files seem to be there and time stamps indicate yesterday's files are there and it seems everything from the last three months, so i hope i'm good
As for why it happened, i don't think i ever saw that error message before, but i have a feeling that its because i've manually stopped time machine from backing up quite a few times as i've been traveling almost three months straight and was tired of Time Machine complaining it hadn't been 'home' for a long time.
I'm really looking forward to Lion's local snapshots for the times when i'm 6-9 weeks on the road. Of course i will follow your advise about also carrying an external hard drive since having the only two copies of files on the same hard drive is pretty scary.
Thanks again for your help!

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Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
     Lion System Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
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After downloading OS X Mountain Lion, my mac has become very slow and takes a bit to shut down programmes. What can i do to bring it back up to the speed it was when i had OS X Lion
Though I wish it were true, it is unrealistic to put 200+ new features into OS X and expect Mountain Lion to run faster and more efficient than Lion on the same hardware. I moved up from Lion to Mountain Lion. Mine is slowing down, but not very slow, as you mentioned. Safari and Mail are simply swine on launch. Check the following:
Patience. If you are impatient and detail alters your mood, take your MBP to the Apple Genius bar.
CPU. If you have a supported, but older MBP, your CPU may be showing its age.
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Compatibility. Sometimes, hardware peripherals and applications are not entirely compatible with a new OS release, and divert OS performance to system log entries. A symptom is a large (> 2GB) system log file at /var/log/system.log. I just discovered a bad USB hub this way. Unplug everything and evaluate your performance again. Zero [ # > /var/log/system.log] the log file if you have the permissions.
Permissions. Launch Disk Utility and verify/repair Disk Permissions on your Mountain Lion disk. While there, might as well Verify Disk too.
Preferences. Sometimes, older preferences do not play well with upgraded application compatibility for a new OS release. It might be worthwhile to delete the specific preference and its lock file from Lion.
Caches. As routine, just before I shutdown the system, I will move the contents of /Users/name/Library/Caches to the Trash. I tolerate Adobe Flash and use their preferences panel to delete all Flash content. Then on reboot, I delete the Trash. Application performance improves as a result.
File Directory. Everytime that I upgrade OS X and run the retail Disk Warrior 4.4, it reports 25% storage fragmentation. Repairing and rebuilding the File Directory always restores noticeable I/O performance.
Storage. If within your budget, upgrade to an SSD. Otherworld Computing has MBP SSD solutions.
Applications. Some non-Apple applications may need recompilation for Mountain Lion, or behavior may be questionable. I compile my own MacVim editor from github sources. The same 64-bit binary that was compiled with XCode 4.3 on Lion, misbehaved on Mountain Lion. Rebuilt it with XCode 4.4 and worked fine.

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I'm having the same problem but only at home with a slow internet service. At work with faster internet my macbook pro works fine. I wonder if Mountain Lion requires some minimum internet speed? Our old macbook pro (not using Mountain Lion) still works fine with our slow home internet. This change happened when I installed Mountain Lion. Also I can boot from by back up disk and bypass Mountain Lion and work with my slow internet at home. ???

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Here is your answer, I think.
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I am running OS X Lion on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro with 4GB of ram and a 160GB HDD. I was going to download Mavericks from the app store but waited to long. Now that Yosemite is out Mavericks has disappeared from the app store. WHY? A person can buy and/or download Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion but not Mavericks??? And the kicker is that it was FREE!!! I just wanted to load Mavericks on my MacBook Pro to see how it performs. If I could live with any slow downs or quirks, I'd leave it installed. If not, I'd roll my system back. Apple's policy of ramrodding unstable product down our throat is BS. I don't want to use Yosemite until it has become more stable!

Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
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If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mavericks, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
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