Cannot Update Purchased App Store Apps ... Error message (You have updates

This worked for me... and very easy. TY!

Did you try checking the App Store info (select icon and Get Info) and uncheck the 32-Bit mode? I did and my apps started updating/downloading!

I got this error trying to install Mountain Lion, but my setup was more complex. I had the developer seed, which I downloaded with my work email address/Apple ID because that's the ID part of my employer's developer program. When I went to download the official ML release on my personal Apple ID, it objected that there were updates in the other ID.

I went and did the one update there, and when both Apple IDs showed no updates, I still got the error.

Resetting warnings in itunes and signing out of the itunes store didn't help.

What did help was trashing the 10.8 developer seed installers out of my Applications folder.

So here it is, in case that's not glaringly obvious to someone other than me. FWIW, it was not obvious to Apple phone support either. :-)

Nice. Re-indexing worked for me too.

Good job!

Had a similar issue, and followed Strangebirds' instructions.

I share my experience, hoping it can help.

If (the app is installed): move to the trash -> disable spotlight -> login @AppStore -> download&install -> enable spotlight

else: disable spotlight -> login @AppStore -> download&install -> enable spotlight

Kudos to apple for the rock-solid application management system

ditto Solution: (Worked for me)

Excellent tip.

I went thru all replies in this thread without avail. Repaired disk permissions and re-built spotlight index, several times, controlling via console if indexing went fine. Always, this annoying and uninformative message "You have updates available for other accounts. Sign in to (null) to update applications for that account." (Why does the appstore not tell which account ?)

Finally, I sorted it out, kind of.

I have two Apple-IDs in the app-store (ID1, ID2). I have two laptops from where I purchased apps (MBP-2008, MBP-2011).

On MBP-2011 I could not update from Xcode-4.6 to Xcode-4.6.1. Xcode shows up with the "update" button, but update failed with "wrong account". This is clearly a bug on the app-store, since Xcode is free. There should be a possibility for a fresh install no matter what. I finally found Xcode-4.6.1.dmg for download on bittorrent and did a fresh install.

I had purchased Yojimbo-3 from ID2 on MBP-2008 from the App-store. My hard disk was propagated from MBP-2008 to MBP-2011 with Yojimbo on it or Yojimbi was migrated using migration assistant; I do not remember. I faced the same problem with update from Yojimbo-3-0-2 to Yojimbo 3.0.4 on MBP-2011. Update refused because wrong account (tried from both accounts ID1- and ID2) . However, I could update using my prior MBP-2008 using ID2. I copied the executable to MBP-2011. Starting Yojimbo-3.0.4 for the first time on MBP-2011 I got a message like "This was purchased on another computer (!!!! now you got it correct Apple !!!), sign in with your Apple.ID." So I signed in with ID2 once and all is fine.

Bottomline:

1. messages from the app-store are completely confusing, even wrong.

2. It should be possible to download FREE apps again (rather than update only), no matter what.

3. Do not purchase from the app-store but from the software vendor directly. In many cases, you have a serial number and support.

4. The update procedure via app-store is fundamentally flawed compared to old Snow Leopard times.

I was having issues buying apps from the app store too since December! I noticed that after I did a system update, the buy it now button dos not work.

But I just figured it out. Something about the Firewall system on my iMac was preventing me to purchase Apps from the app store. I cannot sign in and the sign in option on the right side is greyed out.

So I tried turning off my firewall from the System Preferences, and also my Norton firewall(Yes, I do have it). Then, yup my APP store is now working.

If you guys noticed there was an update last year, that after updating to that, you were asked again to remember your password on the websites that you needed to log in.

My original Error Message was:

You have updates available for other accounts.

To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it.

I couldn't fix this for a while but finally found the solution to my problem. The app I couldn't update was XCode. Anyway, first I tried reindexing by running:

sudo mdutil -avE

This command deletes the spotlight index. ... After spotlight finished rebuilding it's index, I tried updating the app in the App Store again, but to no avail. I still got the same message.

Finally I found the solution that worked. I ran the following line of code in Terminal:

mdimport /path/to/application/XCode.app/

(i.e. this was /Applications/XCode.app for me, it also might be ~/Applications/XCode.app for something else)

This worked beautifully, and took about 30 seconds to run. After the command ran, I was able to open the App Store and update XCode normally. I hope this helps someone.

My symptoms were identical to those reported by MFRWD (error message: "You have updates available for other accounts. To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it." The way I managed to get the application updates to work was by simply opening the offendig application and retrying the update. Here is the process I followed:

• open App Store and try to update the application
• get the error message ("updates available for other accounts")
• open the application itself (leave AppStore running)
• go back to appstore and press "update"; this time around, the update would magically work.

This may work when one is not sure where exactly the application resides or for those who are less than comfortable with cryptic Terminal commands.

I had a similar issue trying to get the last previous version of an app update after it received a major update to a newer paid version. When I looked over my "Purchases" list in the App Store is showed an "Update" button vs. "Installed" button. But when clicking on the update button, it gave a 1004 error (I believe). If I clicked on the app name it would say the app was no longer available in the App Store (as the newer paid version was in place). I deleted the app and reinstalled it from the App Store and I now had the most current version without getting the error in the download process.

The app was Sketch and version 2.4.4 was released about the same time as the newer version 3 was released, and I must have missed the chance for the 2.4.4 update via the normal "Updates" pane of the App Store. So now I can benefit of the fixes in 2.4.4 (from 2.4.3) until I decide to pay to go to Version 3. Also this will help if any additional Sketch 2 updates are posted from this point forward and I see the "Update" button again in "Purchases".

Instead of replying to a thread that has been dead for a year, you really should start your own thread so that your problem get noticed.

Allan

Thanks for the reply, Allan.

I considered that option, but decided to give this dormant thread a bounce since it has many similar occurences and good information about related events (in one place) to help anyone searching the discussions with similar problems. I guess I just thought my information was more additive than needing a new separate thread, and some new input would send the discussion back toward the top. Maybe I'll decide differently next time.

🙂

Instead of resurrecting an old thread, what you can do is start your own and then include a link to an old thread if you feel it contain anything pertinent.