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Mac App Store updates repeating

I purchased Chopper 2 (Fantastic little .99 game. You can control game play on your Mac with the iPhone)...

Anyway, an update showed up in the MacApp Store. I downloaded the update on all 3 of my Macs... Now on 2 of my Macs the update keeps showing up in the MacApp Store even though the app is up to date.

On my 13" MBP this is not the case.... It is working as it should... weird huh ??

Anybody else?

27" iMac Quad i7, 13" MBP, 24" iMac, and 27 others..., Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 14, 2011 9:01 AM

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Cowboooy

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Jan 24, 2014 4:39 AM in response to jamesmcinerney

Guys I had this issue as well with Mountain Lion.

Even after updating all my apps the App store still indicated i need updates.

Whats happening is that the App store uses spotlight to see wha tversions of apps you are running, this is great but if spotlight see's your system backup drive (I have two, one internal and one external) The app store will wish to update these as well hence the duplication.

There is a means of telling Spotlight to ignore your backup drives, once set your clear.

In system pref - Spotlight - privacy

add or select your back up drives.

Mac App Store updates repeating

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