Mountain Lion - Cannot download additional components???

My MacPRO (2008) was running like clock work, but recently a gremlin has appeared. I have been on this forum before and so far all information has been really useful. The mac would start up and shutdown in one motion. I didn't even have enough time to bypass or boot from an alternate drive so it was off to the mac centre to find the cause. Weirdly enough they found nothing wrong and it was good to go. I decided this might be an opportunity to rebuild from scratch and so my 4 drives I zeroed the data and tried to reload Mac OSX 10.8. It starts all well and good before stopping after a few minutes and flagging a problem "cannot download additional components". What is causing this and how do i get around the problem. I would take it back to service centre but have lost confidence in there competency since everytime I take it there it comes out worse than it went in.

Did you get to the point where you have downloaded the entire package from AppStore?
Save the ESD package and prepare an install disk and do a clean install.
Usually - there was one person recently here but cannot find buried in a thread, they had 10.8.2 and the installer is 10.8.3.
What are you running now?
As for the original problem, for which no problem was found... are you using an SSD to boot the system?
How to do clean install of Mountain is same as was for Lion, with how to clone a system.
Make sure you have 8GB flash drive, or even a small (16-32GB) partition (yes, you can setup an installer to run from hard disk drives to do a clean install to another drive or partition).
Create an OS X Lion Install disc
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20080989-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-lion-ins tallation-disc
http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-make-a-bootable-osx-10-8-mountain-lio n-disc-or-drive-from-the-downloaded-mountain-lion-app/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
Worse case and probably the easiest is to reload a clean OS
PS: CNET links are down, even cnet.com won't load.

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My MacBook Pro recently began acting weird. The Application window kept closing on its own. I couldn't launch several applications. I could no longer access my e-mail from my mac and everything is taking much longer than normal to load. I ran MacKeeper, but it found nothing unusual. I then went to the Disk Utility and tried the repair option. It also found nothing unusual. After that, I erased a partition and attempted to reinstall Mac OS X. Each time I tried, it began downloading but eventually said that it was unable to download additional components needed to reinstall OS X. Any idea why?
Any support and/or suggestions as to how I can fix this would be GREATLY appreciated!
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EDIT:
After posting I see this question has the tag of "windows". I don't know if this applies to the Windows version or not.
The only time I see this message is if I download something, trash it, AND empty the trash. If I don't empty the trash, it finds it there. It will find it wherever I move it to, unless it is was in the trash and emptied.
Using Finder, is the downloaded file in your Downloads folder?
Maybe if you go to Safari/Preferences/General and change the location for downloads to something else then change it back to Downloads it might correct it.

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I have the same problem on all my macs, and also my friends. That includes:
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- MacBook Pro 13"
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The problem is that almost every email attachment is corrupt. It means it can in most cases not be opened, except for photos and then they just show some grey area where it's not loaded.
- that all attachment can perfectly be opened on all my iOS devices. 2x iPhone 4, 1x iPad1, 1x iPad2, ipad4, 2x iPhone5
- the problem accures with many files types, but PDF, excel, png, jpg, doc, igs are some I have tried.
I think the problem comes from slow or irregular internet speed. Obviously that should not be an issue and isnt with any other mail program.
This problem is so bad that I'm thinking of switching the mail app as its basically useless. I tried thunderbird and all attachments were loading properly. But it had other issues.
I found a solution that works around this to at least work. Its still not solving it, but at LEAST i can get the mails attachments and work with them, rather than having to forward the mail from my iphone.
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Basically 2 solutions: I prefer option 2, as it can be done fast and each time the issue happens.
1) click the mailbox that has the issues
go to Mailbox in the status and click "Rebuild"
This will re-download all mails. its a bit overkill, but it works.
I've tried this and it also does not download the mails correct. In the end it just shuffles which mails are loaded this time.
2) create a new mailbox inside the main IMAP mailbox account
move or copy the message with the broken attachment there
now do option 1) only for this mailbox
then move the repaired message back.
Same this still not guarantee the attachment.
Such a stupid issue!!!!!

Dear All,
its driving me mental!!! Its now almost every mail attachment that does not load correct! there must be something that can be done.
I also am not the only one.
Please help.
Martin

Downloading additional components for fresh reinstall of lion but does not restart when done

i've attempted to reinstall a fresh copy of lion because ever since i had lion, my dmg files wont open, software would not update and many other problems. So i tried reinstall and i waited hours for them to download additional components. the bar is completely blue (completed) but it would not restart. do i restart it manually?

Manually shut it down.
I would then first reset the SMC:
Shut down and unplug the Mac.
Keep the Mac unplugged for at least fifteen seconds.
Plug the Mac back in and do not turn it back on for at least five seconds.
Press the power button to turn the Mac back on.
Then I would reset the PRAM by rebooting the iMac while simultaneously holding the Command-Option-P-R keys until the machine restarts a second time.
Let us know if these procedures don't solve the problems.
Hope this helps

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Hello! Tried unsuccessfully to restore my MBP, running the Mac OSX Lion, to factory settings. I keep getting the "can't download additional components for the Mac OSX Lion" error when reinstalling the OSX Lion. Any tips on how to resolve this problem?

Hi
Given that your answer to 1. is 'pre-installed' and 3. is 'No', I think the only thing to do is to take it to an Apple store (ideally the one you bought it from) and have them reinstall it for you.
The intended solution in cases like yours is that you should be able to reboot and install even a wiped disk by using Apple's servers over the internet (you do this by restarting with 'command-r' and choosing 'reinstall Lion'). However if this isn't working for you then you need to get the store to do it. Don't let them fob you off with 'go home and try again'. Have them do it in the shop (you're still covered by Applecare warranty so it should cost you nothing save the inconvenience of the trip and possibly leaving the machine there while they fix it).
A reinstall should leave all your own personal data and programs in place.
Note for future: when you get it fixed, first thing to do is buy a cheap external drive and start keeping a backup (either Time Machine or clone with Carbon Copy Cloner).
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Downloading Additional Components

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Hi there,
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prik67 wrote:
i formatted the Hard Drive from Disk Utility in order to Re-install OSX Lion...The download time first shown was like 53 hours and then after like 10 minutes it went down to 10 hours...i am pretty sure thst the internet connection i have is very fast, so why does downloading OSX Lion take so long?
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From the App Store menu bar top of your screen click Store > Check for Unfinished Downloads
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