Over the weekend I had a difficult time downloading a purchased copy of Mountain Lion. Twice the download timed out with a messaging suggesting I had network issues. When it looked like it was going to timeout a 3rd time, I opened a browser and played videos from Vimeo without a problem.
Not willing to just sit there and wait for the third timeout to strike (nothing was downloading and the progress appeared to have froze, I clicked Pause, closed the App store application and rebooted the iMac.
After rebooting, I went back to the App store application, clicked on Purchases, and then clicked Resume and the remainder of the download went without pausing, or timing out. I decided I didn't want to bother upgrading as the weekend was drawing to a close and left it as-is.
Yesterday, I decided to trash the downloaded Install OS X Mountain Lion app and try a fresh download. When that second download completed it didn't show up in the Applications folder. Someone told me it would update/overwrite the existing download regarding where it is located on the iMac.
I went into the Trash bin, used the Show Package Contents and sure enough some of the files had a time stamp from yesterday and not from the past weekend. I used the Put It Back and again the it was found in the Applications folder.
I downloaded a third time and sure enough looking at the package contents find some files with even newer file dates. At this point I really don't trust the original download, or any of the successive downloads.
Can I delete the app from the Applications folder, and then empty the trash and then go back to the App store application, Purchases and download a fresh, clean copy without the fear of anything from the weekend's poor download showing up?
Not willing to just sit there and wait for the third timeout to strike (nothing was downloading and the progress appeared to have froze, I clicked Pause, closed the App store application and rebooted the iMac.
After rebooting, I went back to the App store application, clicked on Purchases, and then clicked Resume and the remainder of the download went without pausing, or timing out. I decided I didn't want to bother upgrading as the weekend was drawing to a close and left it as-is.
Yesterday, I decided to trash the downloaded Install OS X Mountain Lion app and try a fresh download. When that second download completed it didn't show up in the Applications folder. Someone told me it would update/overwrite the existing download regarding where it is located on the iMac.
I went into the Trash bin, used the Show Package Contents and sure enough some of the files had a time stamp from yesterday and not from the past weekend. I used the Put It Back and again the it was found in the Applications folder.
I downloaded a third time and sure enough looking at the package contents find some files with even newer file dates. At this point I really don't trust the original download, or any of the successive downloads.
Can I delete the app from the Applications folder, and then empty the trash and then go back to the App store application, Purchases and download a fresh, clean copy without the fear of anything from the weekend's poor download showing up?
