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struggle4progress

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11. Time spent so far: maybe 20 + 10 + 2 + 2+ 2 = 36 hours

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Sun Jul 29, 2012, 01:58 AM

Jul 2012

You'll have better luck if your internet connection is faster than mine, and if you've kept your machine up-to-date and backed up, because nearly half of this is me updating Lion on a portable machine I haven't used recently and that I've been very negligent to back up

I won't have to re-do the 20 hr download (if my disk works) cuz that's why I made the disk -- but I have several other machines that are gonna require at least the 10 + 2 hr double download update

My main machine, when I get around to doing it, after I'll ironed out the bugs on several others, should go reasonably fast: I've kept the software up-to-date and everything backed up

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How I sorta solved my Mountain Lion download problem [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2012 OP

Well, I got about half way thru after 10 hours (?WTF) and then the download failed. So struggle4progress Jul 2012 #1

With my connection, this would probably take, er, cbayer Jul 2012 #2

yeah, it's ridiculous to force people to download, imo struggle4progress Jul 2012 #3

Mercury is Retrograde till August 9 Berlum Jul 2012 #4

Got it downloaded but now having no luck making an install disk or install usb struggle4progress Jul 2012 #5

OK, so if you want to make an install DVD apparently you need more than the 4.7GB on a standard DVD, struggle4progress Jul 2012 #6

So now I want to put this on one of my macs as an upgrade struggle4progress Jul 2012 #7

So I did the first update/install round on Lion, which probably took about struggle4progress Jul 2012 #8

Two rounds completed my updating for Lion. So it's time to launch struggle4progress Jul 2012 #9

oops. wait. first let me update my firefox, repair permissions on the disk, struggle4progress Jul 2012 #10

Time spent so far: maybe 20 + 10 + 2 + 2+ 2 = 36 hours struggle4progress Jul 2012 #11