Where to find the download progress for your Lion install

Lion is a multi-gigabyte download, coming in around 4 GB, but when you start there is no onscreen indication of how it's going aside from the tiny progress bar in the Dock. Where's the little graph like the one you get in Safari when you are downloading software in the Mac App Store? Well, the solution is available, but not particularly .

Once your download starts, bring the Mac App Store window front and center. You'll see an icon called 'purchases', so click on it and you'll get the progress bar and a time estimate of how long the download will take. You can also go up to the menu bar, and under 'Store' you'll find 'check for unfinished downloads' which will give you the same information. It's a bit surprising that the progress bar just doesn't appear when a download starts, but you can still get the information if you know where to look.

Happy informed downloading.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/

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mappy1

"Purchases/Purchased", we get it :)
Fantastic.
Thank you

October 17 2011 at 9:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Shirley

Interesting - my tab says "Purchased" not "Purchases". OS X Snow Leopard

July 23 2011 at 9:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gede

My download only show 'OS X Lion - Waiting ...'. What does it mean?

July 20 2011 at 11:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean

thanks! was wondering if there was an “estimated time remaining” anywhere

July 20 2011 at 9:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brent Schmidt

Is the download file on the HD at all after downloading? I don't really feel like downloading the same file twice and I can't seem to find the file anywhere.

July 20 2011 at 6:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

timl2k11

Looks like Apple's NC data center is getting hit pretty hard. I get peak 10 mbit/s sec download rate, but on average it is about 4 mbit/s maybe as slow as 3. Actually considering how many peeps are downloading this right now, I'm amazed I get that rate at all. Apple must be pushing some serious bandwidth right now!!!!

July 20 2011 at 6:52 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

Mark Graver

ok i have a question to ask my parents bought a iMac and a mac book pro its registered in both names but i try to install lion and they wanted to charge them again is there a way around that

July 20 2011 at 5:26 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

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timl2k11

Yes. Pay another $30 you jew.

July 20 2011 at 6:53 PM Report abuse Permalink -5 rate up rate down Reply

Robert Marrero

If I had downloaded it on my home's DSL connection, I estimate it would take somewhere between 16 and 17 hours to download (it's an 864 Kbps DSL line). So I went over to my university, plugged into an Ethernet port, and downloaded. The beast only took 14 minutes!

July 20 2011 at 5:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rleef77

You can also hover over the dock and watch the lion download status on the "download" icon.

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