it wont let me sign in

I went to try and update to mountain lion and it said I had to sign in.. so I tried and it said: " an unknown error has occurred". I tried a wrong password to see if that was it but it said incorrect password, so I know im putting my information in correctly. WHY WONT IT LET ME SIGN INTO THE APP STORE?! I was able to sign into itunes though...

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 2:50 PM

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Aug 21, 2012 5:14 PM in response to dkcurrie

First, make sure your Mac qualifies to upgrade to Mountain Lion >


Apple - Upgrade your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion.



If your Mac qualifies, try deleting the cache associated with the App Store..


Quit the App Store.


Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder


Type or copy / paste: ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstore


Click Go them move the Cache.db file from the com.apple.appstore folder to the Trash.


Relaunch the App Store.


If that didn't help, installing the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Comboreinstalls the App Store for you.


It's ok to this even though you are already running v10.6.8.


Restart your Mac then try downloading Mountain Lion.


If you still have problems, try here > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4041

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