G'Day again Ronni
Please don't apologise for the delay. It is I who should be apologising to
you for taking up your time over what is after all only a minor annoyance not a
major problem. Re-indexing spotlight as you suggested has fixed the problem,
very many thanks.
I do wish the "pulsing" of spotlight was a little more obvious though, hard
for my ageing eyes to see the central dot coming and going.
Again Many thanks, I hope you have managed to sort your hiccups.
Barry
On 17/10/2011, at 6:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
> 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.
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>
> 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)
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> 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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