Cannot sign into App Store OSX Mojave

I have tried everything, Apple "support" is useless. HOW can I sign into the app store and download apps I have paid hundreds of dollars for? I have tried all of the terminal, ketychain, etc. hacks and nothing works. How do they get away with this?


MacBook Air (2018 or later)

Posted on Feb 7, 2019 8:39 PM

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Feb 9, 2019 8:42 AM in response to ElkRiverCrew-JDM

OK, after being on the phone with tech support, here is what fixed it, sorry for the confusion.

1-Select finder, click on "Go" and select "Computer", click on "Macintosh Hard Drive"

2- Click on "Library" folder

3- Scroll down to "preferences" folder

4- Select all

5- Make . a new folder within the library and copy paste all items into the new folder

6-Restart, and you will be prompted to setup your computer as new (it won't delete files or apps, you have to rearrange your doc, go through the Siri setup, etc.


Once you are in App store, click on your account info. You will see a dialog that says you have to send a hardware code to Apple to get app updates. If you click accept and it fails, you have to delete the selected apps, (usually just imovie, pages, keynote, numbers and garage band) then redownload them. I hope this helps!



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