HT1338 Mountain lion download very slow. 10 hours so far

Mountain Lion download very slow. 10 hours so far

It takes awhile. Also, your ISP connection is part of the equation.
Barry

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HT1338 Mountain Lion download problems

Tried to get Mountain Lion download/install on my computer. Got message "An error has occured" so can't download. Computer is up to date with plenty of space.

Went to Genius Bar. Solved my problem but I'm not sure how helpful. He ran some diagnostics (hardware diagnostic progeam; Mac Disk Utility for Hard Drive Verication and repair. Don't think he found much wrong. Then, he went for download on their connection, which worked just fine. He explained it was because of the extremely fast download connection. So, I guess you have to get your Mac to somewhere with a super-fast connection (Apple store, but also our local libraries have a very fast connection) for download.
That's all for this problem, as far as I can tell. Over and out.

Mountain Lion Running VERY SLOW on Late 2009 iMac

Specs are all good. There's enough disc space, memory etc... Not too many start up items...
But STILL... My system is BUGGY and VERY SLOW!
I've done a clean install and to no avail... I am constantly getting the spinning wheel with every action I take.
For now, all I can do is be extremely patient and not keep pushing the system... I let it do its thing.
Something is not happy.

Thank you for the repy ETRESOFT!
Not sure why the screen shots aren't showing up? They even came up on iPad while viewing your post? Sorry about that.
Okay... After running your diagnostic program, (THANK YOU AGAIN) here's what we find...
It looks like there's a S.M.A.R.T. failure. (SEE BELOW)
I'm not sure if I should completely wipe the hard drive, attempt utility disk repair and reinstall everything? Would it benefit?
Last week when I was prepared to install Mountain Lion for the first time, I called APPLE Support and they advised me to do the following for a fresh & clean install:
Completely erase the iMac hard drive.
Download and Install a fresh copy of Lion
Set up TEMP USER as default ADMIN
Upgrade to Mountain Lion
Add a 2nd user Chipo1973 with ADMIN Rights
Migrate backup copy of Chipo73 from MacBook Pro onto user Chipo1973 / iMac
Delete original TEMP USER
Not sure if this caused any additional issues?
Thoughts?
EtreCheck Results:
Hardware Information:
          iMac - model: iMac10,1
          1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
          16 GB RAM
System Software:
          OS X 10.8 (12A269) - Uptime: 0 days 0:43
Disk Information:
          ST31000528ASQ disk0 : (1 TB)
          S.M.A.R.T. Status: Failing
                    disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 999.35 GB (734.61 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Information:
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
          Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Logitech USB Receiver
          BLUE MICROPHONE Blue Snowball
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Kernel Extensions:
          com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice          Version: 1.1
          com.vara.driver.VaraAudio          Version: 1.0.3
Problem System Launch Daemons:
                 [failed] com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist
Problem System Launch Agents:
                 [failed] com.apple.afpstat.plist
Launch Daemons:
                 [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
                 [loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
             [not loaded] com.embraceware.awaken.plist
                 [loaded] com.freemacsoft.appcleanerdaemon.plist
                 [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
             [not loaded] com.klieme.TimeMachineScheduler.plist
                 [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
                 [loaded] com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist
             [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist
                 [loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.backupd-auto.plist
                 [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
Launch Agents:
             [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
                 [loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
                 [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
                 [loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist
                 [loaded] com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist
                 [loaded] com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist
                 [loaded] com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
             [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist
             [not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist
                 [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
User Launch Agents:
                 [loaded] ca.madefresh.BodegaAgent.plist
                 [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
             [not loaded] com.adobe.ARM.df0ab5bbe6f698196fcc21e3c1e66dcb758bd911f4d637272d9d8109.plist
                 [loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist
                 [loaded] com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist
                 [loaded] de.metaquark.appfresh.plist
User Login Items:
          Capster
          Boom
          BumpTop
          LaunchBar
          Forismatic
          MenuWeather Lite
          Microsoft Outlook
          CleanMyDrive
          AdobeResourceSynchronizer
          AdobeResourceSynchronizer
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          DivX
          Flash Player
          Flip4Mac WMV
          Logitech Control Center
          MacFUSE (Tuxera)
          MagicPrefs
          Perian
          TimeMachineScheduler
Internet Plug-ins:
          AdobeAAMDetect.plugin
          AdobePDFViewer.plugin
          AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
          CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL.plugin
          CANONiMAGEGATEWAYLI.plugin
          CouponPrinter-FireFox_v2.plugin
          DirectorShockwave.plugin
          DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
          EPPEX Plugin.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
          Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
          googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
          iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
          npTGEQPlugin.plugin
          OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin
          OVSHelper.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
          None
Top Processes:
          7.0   %          Safari
          2.6   %          WindowServer
          1.1   %          EtreCheck
          0.7   %          WebProcess
          0.7   %          coreaudiod
          0.4   %          BumpTop
          0.4   %          Boom
          0.3   %          mds
          0.2   %          prl_disp_service
          0.2   %          SystemUIServer

Mac Pro with OS mountain lion working very slow

I have a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.8.2. the mac is working very slow. It takes a lot of time to boot. Much longer than windows PC. Applications are also running very slow. How to speed up the mac and improve its performance? Plz help!!!

We're a workstation/tower forum.
Having more RAM has little or diminishing affect unless you are runnning apps that need and can use it (graphics being one, such as CS5 and later).
Many laptop owners and desktop like SSD for shorter boot (Mac always boots fast, quicker than Windows, use both).
If it were me I would
Backup of coure, TimeMachine and maybe one other method or set is useful, then do a clean install and reload the OS and let it do all the updates.
Most of the time after a lot of digging around and questions and answers, it gets down to "Did you install xyz" and a list of 3rd party programs, drivers and apps that you added that aren't part of the core OS or from Apple. Whether Norton (notorious) or some "cleaner" program or even something you need but which may not be compatible with or needed with OS X and Mountain Lion.
You can also set aside 100GB and run Windows natively as well as a guest VM OS.
Along with monitoring RAM, disk activity, I've seen RAM DIMMs that were 'loose' or not fully seated - even though Lion OS ran well the second that they tried to install Windows 7 on their MacBook Pro it had errors and could not complete. They had upgraded the RAM on their own. Just odd that OS X was that immune and insensitive.
But this is best off where others with the very same topic can be found in Mountain Lion and MacBook Pro forums. (we get way too many MBP in Mac Tower Pro) MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro

IMac, Mountain Lion, iPhoto very slow

Hi forum!
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion v10.8.2 and I am using an intel dual core processor desktop iMac. 63.27 GB of space available. My last operating system upgade for this device. I have four iPhoto libraries on my HD. I have had no issues until yesterday. I decided to clean up my iPhoto Libraries (i.e. delete the garbage and reorganize the layout of where photos are found, I don't usual tag each photo, I just rely on iPhoto to keep things sorted by date created. I had iPhoto crash everytime that I tried to move things from one event to another or merge events, maybe this is just something that can't be done in this new version. I have done it in the past. I also realized that some of the older libraries are not so compatible with iPhoto v 9.4.1 which sounds normal and decided to not bother fixing these but just to back them up and deal with the application compatibilites issues later.
As I was exploring my library and trying different things, I had multiple crashes. I also tried to empty my trash to make more room on my HD. I only had about 2000 items in the trash and it was so slow emptying. It took over a half hour. Then I noticed that applications were also taking way too long to open with a few crashs. I guess I need to do some system clean up besides iPhoto libraries.
Any not too technical suggestions or not too complicated links to help me resolve my slow system. I am mostly interested in Apple solutions and not third party applications. I did check out iPhoto manager which lead me to Xcode and felt a little overwhelmed. Of course I found these solutions in threads that I read in the forum. I used the apple iPhoto Library FirstAid but I wasted a lot of time and still have some errors in the library. I have some empty events with sometimes no key picture thumbprint.
yours truly, CR

19 hours and no replies, what is the point?
Humm, maybe I do not understand how the online Apple support/discussions work.
How can I delete this posted question?
CR

Mountain Lion Running Very slow

I am running ML on a Mac Mini, 2011, i7, 8Gb RAM. Clean Install recently after similar problems with upgrade from Lion. Etrecheck report below. Any help would be very appreciated.
Hardware Information:
    Mac mini - model: Macmini5,2
    1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
    8 GB RAM
System Software:
    OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) - Uptime: 0 days 3:1
Disk Information:
    WDC WD7500BTKT-40JKWT0 disk0 : (750.16 GB)
        disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        William Genske Mac Mini (disk0s2) /: 749.3 GB (505.36 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
    Logitech USB Receiver
    LaCie LaCie Hard Drive USB 2 TB
        disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        William Genske Backup March 20, 2012 (disk2s2) /Volumes/William Genske Backup March 20, 2012: 2 TB (828.95 GB free)
    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    General                        USB Flash Disk                 16.03 GB
        WGFII III (disk1s1) /Volumes/WGFII III: 16.03 GB (492.2 MB free)
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
           [failed]    com.apple.accountsd.plist
           [failed]    com.apple.afpstat.plist
Launch Daemons:
           [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
           [loaded]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
           [loaded]    com.crashplan.engine.plist
           [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
Launch Agents:
       [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
           [loaded]    com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
User Launch Agents:
           [loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
           [loaded]    com.microsoft.LaunchAgent.SyncServicesAgent.plist
User Login Items:
    smcFanControl
    iTunesHelper
    smcFanControl
    CrashPlan menu bar
    Dropbox
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player
    Growl
Internet Plug-ins:
    Flash Player.plugin
    FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
    JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
    QuickTime Plugin.plugin
    SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
Bad Fonts:
    None
Top Processes:
    5.1   %    UserNotificationCenter
    4.9   %    WindowServer
    2.7   %    Finder
    2.2   %    SystemUIServer
    2.0   %    AdobeCrashDaemon
    1.2   %    EtreCheck
    0.4   %    coreaudiod
    0.3   %    mds
    0.3   %    smcFanControl
    0.2   %    coreservicesd

Portions of this web article may help you solve the issue:
     http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/07/12-reasons-why-your-mac-runs-slow-with-mounta in-lion/
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Mountain lion download is very slow and in-between it hangs of and starts from beginning. Is there a solution i have already purchased it can i download a torrent and authorize it

Mountain lion download is very slow and in-between it hangs of and starts from beginning. Is there a solution I have already purchased it can I download a torrent and authorize it. Somebody pl. Help

Exactly. Some of us don't understand the situation in India. This is a country with sickest internet speeds. The internet segment is dominated by fraudulant companies. There is no consistency that is why most of the data transfer here is through Pen drives and torrent websites. We have never seen a good downlooad speed here. And on the top of inconsistency lies the Mac book Air without a built in RJ45 port.
If i have to do it in an internet cafe it will cost me more time and money than to purchase a Mac book air itself. Apple should start giving us software loaded flash drives at least at premium.

Slow internet after mountain lion download

web pages open slowly or not at all after mountain lion download

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. ???

I have a very fast connection, why is my mountain lion downloading so slowly?

I have a fast internet connection, why is mountain lion downloading so incredibly slow?

Apple servers seem to be the problem. To many downloads.

HT1338 Mountain Lion stops downloading at 41.3 mb's. Shows calculating and does not move on!

Trying to download Mountain Lion on a Mac mini and it is stopping at 41.3 Mb's. It shows "calculating" but does not move on beyond that stage! Version 10.6.8 is the current OS... Any suggestions?

I am having difficulties too!. I have found a way to push it along but don't know if in the end this will eventually succeed and I don't know why I am having to do this.
For what it is worth.
But going to the app LaunchPad and clicking on the in progress OS X Mountain Lion download and pausing it momentarily and then clicking it again, I have gotten my download to keep moving along. Again I don't know why and I have had to do this several time to get the download to progress to 3.11GB out of the total 4.37GB. So I'm three quarter of the way thru and about to do the process again to get the apparently stalled download going again.....
OK. It is again moving along..... now to 3.27GB
Too me it has the symptoms of the download process finding it has a bad package and repeatly trying again until it stops trying. At that point is just stops. When one kicks it by doing the LaunchPad stop and go, I think it checks finds a problem and restarts the download of the problem packets .... that's my theory....
My download is now up to 3.79 out of 4.27GB.
I have been messing with this on three computers in my network for a couple weeks..... This is the furthest I have gotten..... Perhaps I will succeed today....
BTW - It appears to have stop again at 3.79.... I;m going to play the stop/go game in Launchpad....
After about aminute it has started downloading again.....
Now 3.80GB.....
Perhaps Apple should look more carefully at it's caching servers...... I think they are either timing out connections or somehow making the past never fail Apple Downloaded look pretty advanced compared to this stop and go model....
I am now up to 4.03 and downloading with about 10 minutes to go....
Message was edited by: Terry Fundak

Mountain Lion download problem

I have been trying to download Mountain Lion for about 5 hours now and I keep getting errors saying the download cannot be completed. The last error I recieved was The download could not be completed becasue of a Hash Mismatch Error.
A download of about 4GB of data on my Internet Connection would usually take about 1 hour.
If I do get to succesfully download the Installer will the Installation begin automatically or is it started manually. I would prefer manually so I can make a backup copy first.
Christo
I am on a Late 2011 13' Macbook Pro, OsX 10.7.5

Contacted Apple Store Tech support requesting a solution. I received a reply from a gentleman telling me his area of expertise and that this problems didn't fit in his area of expertise and suggested I look on online forums and the like for a solution!!
All I have found out is this is a very common problem
Thanks for http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact.html?form=account. Have not received a reply from Apple after 48 Hours.
I have tried:
Logging out and back onto the Online Store
Deleting the Apple Store cache on my HD
Connecting via an Ethernet cable instead of WI-FI
Using my iPhone 3G Data, teathered
Connecting via a totally different network
Restarting, restarting, restarting...
Nothing has worked. And still no solutions from Apple. I kinda of thought they might have suggested I go into a real Apple store and have them put a copy on my Mac or something.

I lost Power while I was 50% through on my Free Mountain Lion Download.

I lost Power while I was 50% through on my Free Mountain Lion Download. Restarted my system and did not find the Download on my Launchpad. Is there anyway I can continue that download? Tried refilling the form, no Luck Though!
The form says I have already claimed my Free Code for my MacMini Serial!
I live in India and this is a very common problem I am guessing! Slow Internet Speeds and Power Issues!
Help would really be Appreciated!
- Sigmund Quadros

Thanks so much mate! The download has begun, from the top though! Doesn't really matter as long as I have it downloading! Cheers! And Big Thanks again!

Mountain Lion download problems with Lion 10.7.5 (no VirusBarrier issue)

I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro. From the factory it came with Snow Leopard but has since been upgraded to Lion OS X 10.7.5. I do not have VirusBarrier, I am writing from a recently clean-installed Lion.
I have now been troubleshooting my Mac for several days. When I wrote first, I had an issue with Safari having been damaged and so I wasn't able to reinstall Lion - but after a certain extremely helpful community member I finally succeeded in installing Lion.
But the issues with the App Store still persist. All my Mountain Lion downloads fail, getting the error message "can't verify, might be corrupted" what many here have also been getting. However, most solutions were related to VirusBarrier (which I don't have), or /var/folders errors (Console does not show any var-related errors).
So if it's not a var-related issue, or related to firewalls or virus softwares (I have disabled the Firewall and I have no virus software installed), what could it be?
When the download and install of ML failed last time, Console showed the following messages:
11/30/12 11:54:44.617 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.app-store-software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [235] for authorization created by '/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app' [567]
11/30/12 11:54:44.617 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [235] for authorization created by '/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app' [567]
11/30/12 12:25:49.252 PM authexec: executing /Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool
11/30/12 12:26:17.178 PM Install OS X Mountain Lion: Stopped operation queue with Error Domain=IAErrorDomain Code=101 "This copy of the Install OS X Mountain Lion application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." UserInfo=0x7f93aad17ee0 {IAErrorAlternateAction=App Store, NSLocalizedRecoveryOptions=(
Cancel,
"App Store\U2026"
), NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Delete this copy of the application, and go to the Purchases page of the Mac App Store to download a new copy., NSRecoveryAttempter=<IARecoveryAttempter: 0x7f93aab1e1d0>, NSLocalizedDescription=This copy of the Install OS X Mountain Lion application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.}
...and a bit later, upon re-starting the download:
11/30/12 12:29:40.515 PM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.apple-software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [817] for authorization created by '/Applications/App Store.app' [781]
11/30/12 12:29:40.547 PM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/in stalld' [817] for authorization created by '/Applications/App Store.app' [781]
Problem elimination:
* I don't think this is a router-related issue: I have downloaded and installed other softwares outside App Store successfully
* As said, I don't think this has anything to do with Firewall or Virus settings
* Nor has this anything to do with /var/folders as far as I can tell
What I've tried so far:
* Repaired disk permissions several times
* Rebooted
* Restarted App Store
* Following one advise found on the net, I deleted preflight.pfpkg just in case
* All the time I have made sure my OS has the most recent Software Updates installed (most of them downloaded successfully, while with Safari and OS 10.7.5. I had to try several times before they were downloaded succesfully)
I just reinstalled my OS X Lion, only to use it to jump on to Mountain Lion - so I am pending my migration until ML is installed. I would like to fix this soon, since I'd like to get the migration done and my real work started. I would really appreciate your help.
I'm not very adept at using Console or Terminal to troubleshoot, so if someone could guide me through the problem identification, that would be great. Unless someone already knows exactly what's going wrong and can show me a working solution - that'd save my day!
Thanks!

In cases like this, if you have an Apple store near by, they will most likely install the OS free of charge for you, if you can't bring your Apple ID along to prove you've paid for it.
Would that work out for you?

Lion is very slow. I have problem to make copy of a file. How can I make a check to see what is wrong?

Lion is very slow. The big problem now is when I need to make a copy of a file in an external HD. A file about 7 Gigas can take 4 hours!!!
Using Aperture I try to save a library in an external HD (another) with function "export project as a library" an takes hours for something around 1 giga.
Since I have Lion I can not use Time Machine. I have a Western Digital 2 Teras in raid 1. 1 tera for copy and 1 tera as an image. It's been impossible. I had to format the HD and when I try to start using Time machine my 600 gigas of data becomes in 7 days!!. 7 days !! for a backup. An usually after several hours (sometimes 20hrs, sometimes 1 day and a half) the process stoped abrudtly... and that's it. star again.
How can I check or perform a exploration to see what is happening?
thanks in advance
RyJ

Is a Western Digital Studio Edition II 2T (in RAID 1 mirror). The HD has 2 drives 1T each an put one mirroring the second one.
HD is connected to Mac through Firewire 800.

Can I stagger the OS X Mountain Lion download?

Hello,
Can I stagger the OS X Mountain Lion download as long as convenient?

That depends quite a bit on the speed of the links between your computer and the servers sending the download. Your immediate link to the internet and the link from your modem/router to your Mac are ikely to be the slowest links.
Absent information about your link speeds, "hours and hours" is the best answer I can give.

HT1338 Mountain lion download very slow. 10 hours so far

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