Why does it take days for the mountain lion to download. it seems stuck and wont continue

why does it seem mountain lion download is stuck and not downloading. it takes sooooo long

Like macjack mentioned, restart your Mac and the download should pick up where it left off. If not, go back into the App Store and click the Download button and watch for it to start. Another user was having this issue and after a restart, he had to click download again to 'jump start' it. Then he was able to see a progress bar.

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