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. > > > > On Oct 26, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 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? >> >> --- >> Entertaining minecraft videos >> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
