I actually did not *do* *anything* with Spotlight except a couple of searches. Well, nothing yesterday, anyway. I *DID* add the external drive partitions to the list of items to not index this morning, however.
If Spotlight is being accessed or used, it would have had to also be reporting those resources *not* being available because the external drive was *disconnected*. That sounds like a rather complicated, indirect and certainly not fool-proof method of authorization/verification. And it begs the question of why I have to do *any* jumping through hoops to *re*download a purchase. It is obvious they know that *I* made the purchase and the download on the computer *I* logged in with. And, except for the OS itself, I've read that any purchased app can be loaded onto any machine simply by logging in properly. The only thing I did that seems to have made any difference was to physically delete (and empty the Trash) every trace of Growl I could find. The MAS then allowed me to re-download. The strange thing is that all purchases showed as being available for an "* Install*" not just Growl. After my second install and a Restart, the MAS returned to its original indication for all purchases: "*InstallED*". There are so many variables in this that I can't be sure if any one thing caused the "fix." It could even have been a intermittent problem on the MAS servers. I hear there is something called "iCloud" being introduced now-a-days! LOL! I've not registered for that, yet, however. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/growldiscuss/-/QuePkGCEU1AJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
