I hit download, but lion just sits in the dock "waiting" until it finally just disappears.

I bought more memory, I bought the Lion app, I hit the download button, but the Lion icon just sits in the dock "waiting" until it finally just disappears. I've retried the download button as well as restarted the computer. What else?

deborahfromshoreline wrote:
I bought more memory, I bought the Lion app, I hit the download button, but the Lion icon just sits in the dock "waiting" until it finally just disappears. I've retried the download button as well as restarted the computer. What else?
How long does it 'wait' for in the dock and you mean there is no progress bar at all? And the Lion Download .dmg hasn't appeared in the Applications folder?
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