On 2014-10-27, at 1:08 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:

> Temporarily dismount all other boot partitions before opening the App Store. 

Err ... simple ... yea I like that.
Thank you.

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> On Oct 26, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Make sure you do not have another copy of the application on your system.
>> 
>> And here is the issue I have with appstore: How do I tell which app will be 
>> updated?
>> 
>> Standard "safety" procedure is to have a different partition for different 
>> OS's, right? So I've got one partition with OS X 10.9.5, a second partition 
>> with a copy of 10.9.5 that is ready to try a 10.10 update, another partition 
>> that has the 10.7.5 data that I used to migrate from (and I'm looking for a 
>> way to set up a virtual machine to run 10.7.5 in the future because at least 
>> two programs that I use won't work in 10.10 without buying an update, and I 
>> hate 10.9.5).
>> 
>> But in general: I've got multiple copies of XCode, which wants an update. 
>> I've got multiple copies of some programs that I've gotten from the 
>> appstore. At no time do I ever see a way to specify "which disk to install 
>> on", or "where do you want to install this program", or "Drag this into 
>> appliations" anymore -- everything is now "smarter" than me, but assumes 
>> only one OS will be installed on the computer, and that anything, anywhere, 
>> is valid for use no matter if it's in a .dmg that wasn't mounted and 
>> contains some really OLD stuff that should not be used anymore, kept for 
>> reference as an old computer image, but still shows up on a right click and 
>> "open with xxx".
>> 
>> Sigh.
>> 
>> How do I manage app store updates when there is more than one copy of the 
>> app on the system, and I want to update the one that is associated with this 
>> OS, on this root partition, and not the one on some other partition or disk 
>> image?
>> 
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