App Store Freezing When Downloading

I had the same problem, but unmounting bootcamp partition did not help.

I had disabled Spotlight some years ago, but it did not affect anything until now...

So my solution is to re-enable spotlight (or the mds service with:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

)

After this App store freeze is disappeared. I hope this comment helps for others.

After a couple weeks of being unable to use the App store, re-enabling Spotlight fixed the problem for me. Thanks kolesm! I disabled spotlight so long ago I hadn't even thought of it being an issue.

Thanks a ton kolesm! I did the same thing and re-enabling spotlight did the trick for me too!

Thanks kolesm, enabling spotlight did it for me too.

Kolesm is the man

Indeed, re-enabling Spotlight fixes the problem. Thanks Kolesm and Internet!

+1 re-enabling spotlight. Thanks kolesm !

Having the same problem. No bootcamp mounted, and spotlight is enabled. Still nothing and its driving me crazy!

Same thing. One more thing: I signed out App Store, and tried downloading an app, it didn't bother pop up a box asking logging-in.

Why nobody from Apple comes in and give an answer?!

kolesm wrote:

I had disabled Spotlight some years ago, but it did not affect anything until now...

So my solution is to re-enable spotlight (or the mds service with:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

)

After this App store freeze is disappeared. I hope this comment helps for others.

yes, this was the case for me too. I disabled it using "spotless" and had to reenable it. Now app store works. Thank you!

I don't have any bootcamp partition to unmount.

I've disabled and re-enabled spotlight

Then I used Onyx to enable indexing on startup-disk

http://cl.ly/EjLg

Now I can update the apps, but the spinning circle still there

http://cl.ly/EhwW

Could anybody provide hints?

Thank you 🙂