![]() Move the Installer out of the Applications folder (e.g., to your Desktop).Download the Lion installer from the App Store (see the steps above if you have already installed Lion).You should see “OS X Lion” and “Install” should now be gray and you can click that to re-download Lion (you may have to re-authenticate within the App Store with your Apple ID).While holding down the OPTION key, click on the “Purchases” section.So, assuming that you already downloaded and installed Lion, when you go to the App Store, and look at your Purchases section, Lion will show as “Installed” (see the picture above). Also, I used the DVD I created below to install on another Mac and it worked fine. ![]() UPDATED 7/22/11 – There is now a VIDEO that explains all of the items below as well as steps on how to create a bootable USB Thumb Drive on THIS POST. So, how the heck do you download it again since in the App Store, it shows as “Installed” and there is no way to re-download it? ![]() That is the issue that I ran into and I had to re-download the Lion installer to create the bootable DVD. The interesting thing about the 3.76 GB installer that is downloaded from the App Store is that after you install it, it magically deletes itself after the install is complete. (See the Apple Resource link below for details.) For all Macs produced AFTER the launch of Lion, you can re-install Lion via the Internet.
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