Then if it were me, I’d call Apple and read them the riot act. You shouldn’t be getting this kind of garbage on a NEW Mac Mini. You get 90 days free telephone support, they owe you.
On Dec 23, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > Thanks for the detailed suggestion. Did as you describe, even waited for > mdworker to go quiescent, but still no joy. > -Carl > >> You can try the following, which may or may not work. >> >> Open System Preferences / Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Drag the >> icon of your hard drive into the box. Confirm when it nags you about >> that. Leave it in there 30 seconds or so, then take it out. That will >> cause a complete Spotlight re-index of your drive, which is known to cure >> certain types of App Store colic. >> >> The reason it may not work is that the iWork suite seems to have a >> serial-number-ish validation protocol attached to it in addition to the >> usual App Store tracking, and this procedure may be insufficient to >> address that. >> >> >> On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> We have a new Mac mini and in the App Store it wants us to update Pages. >>> So one of the students entered his Apple ID and it popped up a panel >>> saying: >>> >>> * Update Unavailable with This Apple ID * >>> This update is not available for this Apple ID either >>> because it was bought by a different user or the item >>> was refunded or cancelled. >>> >>> But... there's no way provided to log into a different Apple ID! >>> Pressing >>> the "Update" button again just brings up the same idiot box skipping the >>> login step. >>> >>> So I log the student out, log into my account, enter my Apple ID, and >>> now >>> a panel pops up and says: "Unknown Error." with a button on the panel >>> that >>> says "Sign In", so I click on it. Guess what? Another panel! >>> >>> * We could not complete your request. * >>> There was an error in the App Store. Please >>> try again later. (4) >>> >>> Am I the only one having this lovely user experience? >>> -Carl >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
