Old Macs are definitely a hobby considering the amount of time they take ). That is how I finally managed to download Lion from the App Store and install that together with the recovery partition (which comes with Lion) on my mac. The second update fixed my issue with my updates getting stuck so then as a third step I was able to update the software through the OS X updater.Īfter the third step I was also able to click the download button in the App Store. The first update gave me access to the App Store but then I got the problem with not being able to click the download button. Update software through the OS X updater (click the Apple logo left hand upper screen > Software Update.)Īnd yes, this sounds weird since both those updates have been posted by Apple on the same day and should (I suspect) contain the same updates.These are the steps in order that I followed to update Snow Leopard to a state where I was able to download Lion from the App Store thereby enabling myself to install that and create the recovery partition:

Also, once I did manage to update to 10.6.8 (where the App Store comes available), I was unable to click the download button in the App Store since it would not do anything. I would get stuck during restart with only a mouse.

I installed 10.6.3 on an old iMac late 2006 a1207 which can only go up to 10.7.5 Lion.Īfter installing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 with the disk I was unable to update the software through the updater in OS X.

App store download button