Hi Barry,
Sorry for delay in getting back to you, I’ve been busy sorting out my own
little hiccups ;-)
I found this when doing a Google search:
Mac App Store updates not working:
The problem with the App Store updates may be rooted in the store's use of
Spotlight to locate installed applications.
In order for the store to locate the applications, the Spotlight index needs to
be working properly.
As a result, one approach to fixing the problem is to force a rebuild of the
system's Spotlight index.
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Go to the Spotlight system preferences.
2. Go to the Privacy tab.
3. Add your boot drive ("Macintosh HD") to the privacy list and close the
preferences.
4. Open the preferences again and remove your hard drive from the list.
5. Reboot the system.
With the system freshly restarted, wait for the spotlight index to rebuild (the
spotlight menu will have a pulsing dot in it while this is happening).
Once Spotlight has fully indexed the drive, open the Mac App Store again and
try updating your applications again, and if that was the problem then the
updates should appear properly.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.7.2 Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 17/10/2011, at 11:15 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
> Hi Ronni
>
> Yes I logged out and back in. The app is a free game called "Chess Knight".
> The app is for the iMac not a iPod/Pad app. It ran OK prior to the
> appearance of update notification and details of the update indicate only
> minor changes. Simultaneously other update notifications appeared (total of
> four) and three updated with no problem. I have temporarily stopped the
> annoyance by removing the icon for the App Store from the dock.
> I am sorry to hear you are having email problems, I have not bitten the
> bullet yet regarding update to Lion so don't have option of iCloud. Updates
> always seem to give me problems, after updating the iPad to ios5 yesterday
> one of my apps on there is behaving oddly but I have not tried chasing it
> down yet.
>
> regards
> Barry
>
> On 17/10/2011, at 10:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> Did you log out of your iTunes Account? What is the App?
>>
>> I’ve posted more replies to WAMUG than are getting through, my reply email
>> to you came into WAMUG, but not any others?
>> It’s really annoying me, originally the migration from MobileMe to iCloud
>> was working perfectly but now it is NOT.
>>
>> We will see if you receive this one :-(
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>> On 17/10/2011, at 10:00 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Ronni but that doesn't work. The update circle still remains and
>>> indeed there is an update but it won't load.
>>> Looking at my emails for yesterday I notice two of yours appear to have got
>>> through.
>>> Barry
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/10/2011, at 9:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Barry,
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully this reply gets through to WAMUG Mailing list, none of my
>>>> replies yesterday have come through to the WAMUG list from my iCloud mail
>>>> address?
>>>> They have sent as they are in my Sent Mailbox, but must be floating around
>>>> in CyberSpace!
>>>>
>>>> Try, Launching iTunes and logging into your iTunes account, see if that
>>>> fixes the red update circle that appears incorrectly on the App Store icon
>>>> in the dock.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Ronni
>>>>
>>>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
>>>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
>>>>
>>>> OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
>>>> OS X 10.7 Lion
>>>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
>>>>
>>>> On 17/10/2011, at 8:40 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have an update notification on the App icon in the dock (the usual
>>>>> small red number). However, when I go to update this app I get the
>>>>> notification OS 10.7 required to upgrade this App. As I am still running
>>>>> 10.6.8 I can't upgrade but neither can I remove the little red number.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I find this a little annoying can anyone suggest a method to remove
>>>>> the update advice number?
>>>>>
>>>>> Barry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> iMac 10,1
>>>>> Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz
>>>>> 8GB RAM
>>>>> 1.0 TB HD
>>>>> OS X 10.6.8
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