OSX Mountain Lion taking a long time to download

I already purchased Mountain Lion and it downloaded fine on my iMac. Now I'm trying to downlad it on my Mac Book Pro and it won't download. It says downloading but it's not moving. Anyone else have this problem?

If you have Mountain Lion downloaded in your iMac, you can copy it to an external drive and install 10.8 in your MacBook Pro

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After I upgraded to OSX Mountain Lion, QuickTime no longer auto names and auto saves, my recordings

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HI,
In Message Menu > Preference > Accounts you should at least have the iMessage Account (Which is Enabled) and th Bonjour one that most likely is not.
After that if you had iChat type AIM valid Screen Names or Jabber IDs in an earlier OS then the System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars should list them and have them set to be used with Messages.
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Once you have a t least one other "Account" other than th iMessage one in Messages then the Buddy List option will appear next to CMD and 1 in the Window menu list.
NEXT
If you go to the General Section of the Messages Preferences you can unlink several Buddy lists if you have them (By default they are shown as one gathered Buddy list)
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Why does Mountain Lion take a long time to shut down my MacBook Air when I chose "Shut Down?" Much longer than before the upgrade.

Mountain Lion takes a long time to shut down. Much longer then Lion.
Any comments appreciated.
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Attachments taking a long time to download

Hi, I wonder if anyone is experiencing the same problem. I've just got my iphone 4 and have noticed that when I download an attachment in mail it seems to be taking a long time to download. This is compared to my old 3g which downloaded them ten times faster when connected to my wi-fi. (granted, before i updated it to 4.0)!! Does anyone have a fix for this? Safari is fast compared to my 3g.
Regards, Andy

Hey Rebecca 94!
You may need to check for sources of Wi-Fi interference if you are on a wireless connection:
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1365
We also have another article that may help you make further sense of the situation:
iTunes Store: Download times will vary
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1577
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

HT1338 I went to the Apple Store and bought the OSX Mountain Lion update and it is still downloading. The download began at around 7:00 PM last night. It is now 7:03AM. What's wrong. The icon on my computer says it is downloading still.

My OSX Mountain LIon is still downloading after the download was initiated 12 hours ago. What's wrong?

Possibly nothing. The whole thing relies on the amount of people currently doing the same thing as you and also your internet connection, remembering that WiFi is extremely slow.
How far through the download is it? If it's nearly done and at least still moving along I would be inclined to leave it. If not then you can stop it and start it all over again. Just be warned that if it is simply a connection issue then you might just be re-starting your clock
PS - I've seen the download take over 60hrs before.

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My new iPad3 with wifi- is taking a really long time to download,much longer than my iPhone. Does anyone know what I can do?
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slow Internet connection.

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I'm downloading OS 10.9 and it seems to be taking a very long time, nothing tells me that anything is happening. Is this how it works?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We're users here and do not speak for "Apple Inc."
These are very large downloads.
If you're on OS X 10.8 there will be a tiny 'progress bar' below the Downloads folder on your Desktop.
Safari in OS X 10.6 has a separate Downloads window that opens to show progress of file downloads in bytes transferred.
The full OS X 10.9 Mavericks download is 5.3 gigabytes. That's huge.
If you're already running Mavericks, the latest 10.9.2 Update Combo is nearly 900 megabytes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1725
Depending upon your internet connection speed, it may take several hours or longer to download.
My internet connection speed is 20Mb/sec maximum under ideal conditions, or about 150 megabytes per minute. At that constant rate, it would take me at least 33 minutes to download the full Mavericks system, and about 6 minutes to download the update.
A 2Mb/sec that would be at least 330 minutes, or six and one half hours.
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I've purchased the Mountain Lion update, but it's taken over an hour to load only 1 dot. Is there something I should be doing?

Liz187 wrote:
I'm replying to my own question to point out my connection is through TimeWarner Cable; normally everything runs fast.
It's worth noting that because Mountain Lion is 4 gigabytes, it's probably many times larger than anything else you usually download. And how fast something downloads is affected by your service level. When downloading most web pages and movies, most people would not notice the difference between, say, a 3 gigabit per second service and a 20 megabit per second service. I, for example, have a 12 megabit connection and that usually means most files seem about equally fast, but a massive system installer like Mountain Lion usually takes most of an hour to download due to its sheer size. I realize I could cut the time down if I paid more per month for a 20 megabit connection or faster, but since it's only occasional that I download something this big I don't want to pay more.
The speed of cable like Time Warner can be (I hear) variable depending on things like how many people are online in the neighborhood. My 12Mb DSL connection is just about always running at its rated speed, but a lot of areas can't get DSL faster than 3Mb or so. In other words there are a lot of reasons why a download as large as an OS X system installer might be slow.
One important thing that can help: Make sure you have minimized the downloading or uploading of anything else on your computer or any other device in the house. For instance, if your spouse is watching a movie on Netflix, your kid is downloading music, and your own computer is uploading an automatic backup to Carbonite or Backblaze, your download won't be able to use the full bandwidth of your connection.

Apple TV taking a long time to download an iTunes Store movie rental

Normally when we rent a movie from the iTunes Store via Apple TV we're able to start watching it within a few minutes. We just rented one, however, and the downloading process is going super slow. It's been downloading for at least 10 minutes, it's just 22 percent done, and AppleTV is saying that we won't be able to start watching it for another 35 minutes.
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Ian Cashman wrote:
will be wanting a refund because its too late to watch the movie now.
you have 30 days to start watching it.
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I purchased os x lion and it is taking a long time to download whats up

I purchased os x lion and it is taking forever to download ?

How big is "rather large" to you?? If you don't like non-specifity by others, don't do the same yourself.
If Apple listed the filesize of the download or something meaningful, we could all determine how long is reasonable for our internet connections, which we know despite the lack of capabilities from Apple in helping that regard as well!

Reinstalling of os x lion taking a long time! help?

Hello!
I am having such a frustrating time with the reinstalling of the os x lion.
At one point of the download it has told me it would take 180 hours to complete! (it's unbelievable!) I mean I know that the computer goes through recalculations over the time of the download but the download bar doesn't even hit half way even after several hours.... All it says is "Downloading Additional Contents"
Before I started to reinstall the os x I had cleaned out my disk and everything.
Please if anyone could help it would really mean the world as I want to get my laptop back to working again.
Is there anyway I can fix this or anything?

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Reinstalling os x lion taking a long time!! Help?

Hello!
I am having such a frustrating time with the reinstalling of the os x lion.
At one point of the download it has told me it would take 180 hours to complete! (it's unbelievable!) I mean I know that the computer goes through recalculations over the time of the download but the download bar doesn't even hit half way even after several hours.... All it says is "Downloading Additional Contents"
Before I started to reinstall the os x I had cleaned out my disk and everything.
Please if anyone could help it would really mean the world as I want to get my laptop back to working again.
Is there anyway I can fix this or anything?

"I haven't tried this myself, but in theory you should be able to boot from your Time Machine backup into Lion Recovery, where you can perform a full-system restore from the most recent snapshot. Try it and let us know if it works."
How exactly would I do this?

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I downloaded the app and about 30-45 minutes ago and it is taking forever to download. Is this normal?

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Hey Rebecca 94!
You may need to check for sources of Wi-Fi interference if you are on a wireless connection:
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: Potential sources of wireless interference
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1365
We also have another article that may help you make further sense of the situation:
iTunes Store: Download times will vary
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1577
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

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