App Store 500 error

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist and com.apple.appstore.commerce.plist.  Move the .plists to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plists from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plists to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

Had the same issue.

Signed out of iCloud then back in and it worked, finally. Took a few tries.

This helped me. There is another file com.apple.appstored.plist I had to move along with the commerce.plist and appstore.plist.

thank you.

I'm having this same issue. I've followed your directions until I hit a roadblock... I could use your help, please.

What if Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist and com.apple.appstore.commerce.plist aren't in my Library folder? Then what?

Hi!

I had the same error, with the same opsys. Sing out from iCloud, then sign in again. That helped me.

when installed Microsoft word show following massage:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.commerce.client error 500.)

Can someone please find the fix for this???

I just spent 3 Grand on a piece of **** computer

that refuses to sign in to the App Store...

Apple Loves Taking Money out of one pocket

and then making it very difficult to use the fucking computer.

Is there still no fix for this? Absolutely ridiculous

You are welcome.

This did not work for me

I lied it does work thank you good sir

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