Mountain lion app not downloading

Just bought the mountain lion app for my macbook 6.1 and it says it is downloading but nothing is actually happening. What do I do?

That's normal. Do you see a loading bar under AppStore on your Dock. As long as there is a loading bar, it eventually moves. If absolutely noothing happens for a half an hour restart your Mac and the DL should pick up from where it left off.

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