Trying to install Mavericks.

Had to abandon after it spent 5 hrs downloading. 
Cannot find the download (App store says it is downloaded) and don't know how to get it started again. 
Believe I have enabled journalling on hard drive, anything else I need to do?  I have time machine backups running - is this enough?  What will it wreck? (I always assume any update to operating system will wreck something - nice to be forewarned)
Help please?

johntheophilus,
the Mavericks installer is a large file — over 5 GB — so depending upon your Internet connection, it might take several hours to finish downloading. (It took me about five hours to download it.)
If it successfully downloaded, then it will be found in your Applications folder. Note that if you leave it in the Applications folder, after you run it, it will be deleted. If you’d like to keep the installer around, move it out of your Applications folder before running it — that way, it won’t be deleted after running.
Before running the Mavericks installer, make sure that all of your third-party apps are compatible with Mavericks, and that your other hardware, such as printers, scanners, &c., are supported in Mavericks. It would be a good idea to run the Verify Disk function of Disk Utility, to make sure that there’s no underlying problem on your internal disk. Be sure to make a Time Machine backup just before running the installer, so that if for whatever reason Mavericks doesn’t work out, you can readily roll back to a known working environment through a Time Machine restoration.

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