Lion os x download taking forever
It says that lion is downloading and it's on my dock but it is taking an extremely long time. is this normal or is something wrong?
rita nielsen wrote:
I think I will have the record slowest download. It says I have 9 more days.....and who would of thunk it downloading an Apple product to an Apple product.
FRUSTRATED!
Never believe the 'Time Left' read out. My Leopard 10.5.3 update told me it had over seven years to go. About ten minutes later it said 1 minute to go and then stayed like that for just under an hour.
It may just be a bit of a jam at your server or a slow connection at this time. How fast is your internet speed normally?
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