App Store – unable to update my apps!

Update to my [NichiyoDaikusan] post above:

Found a workaround from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252471137?answerId=254689658022#254689658022

Copied from Eau Rouge' entry:

"There is a workaround.

Open Activity Monitor from your Applications> Utilities folder.

Click on CPU and in the Search field enter appstoreagent,

now highlight appstoreagent in the list, see below.

click on the info button, and press Quit> force Quit. [or click on the "View" drop down menu then "quit process" ⌥⌘Q] "

The following entry after Eau Rouges post by implied64 has the answer!!!

THE App Store MUST BE OPENED when force quitting the appstoreagent. And yes you have to kill it twice before it goes away.

Was able to complete all the updates without killing appstoreagent again after the first update.

I spent 3 hours with tech support: log-in, log-out, create a test account, reboot, safe mode, etc... and at the end... I got the standard Hail-Mary: reinstall the OS. Ugg!

This is the solution to the problem. Thank you!!!

I'm on Mojave as well. App Store says I have an update pending but it won't download it. Spinning little white circle indefinitely no matter how long it's left running. Also if I try to go download any other apps nothing happens either. Been like this all day today. Have tried all kinds of things to no avail. What is going on? Is the App Store dead?

Add one more to the group.

Mojave 10-14-6, spinning little white circle after clicking apps update. Spinning little white circle on trying to install new apps also.

Tried multiple things, and then some -- short of reinstall or upgrade OS

I am so disappointed in Apple. I've been a loyal customer since the 1970s, and quality control of Apple products has sunk to a new low. I have been a beta tester, an early adopter, and a steadfast aficionado even when *given* competing products. Still, the awful decline in reliability and stability, especially in the Mac arena are nothing short of disheartening.

I held off on Catalina, and even bought a MacBook Air to use as a "sandbox" for Big Sur. Neither of these "updates" inspires me to change from Mojave. And now the App Store, which is hard-wired into the OS it seems (wasn't Microsoft sued for doing the same thing with Internet Explorer?). I can't remove it, and now I can no longer update apps I've purchased through it. How is Apple QA allowed to pass these kind of failures on to the public, and why does Apple management not address the growing defect list in its products? Linux is looking better all the time...

same here.

Ok I took the time to do a completely fresh reinstall of Mojave. App Store still doesn’t work.

This worked thanks thanks thank you. This problem was driving me absolutely nuts.