Recently upgraded to Mountain Lion in App Store. Now, although iPhoto upgrade appears in the window I get a message saying I need to sign into the account where I bought it. I am signed in with my Apple ID.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iPad 2, iPhone 4S
iPhoto would have been one of the iLife apps that came preinstalled on a new Mac. Did your MBP come with Lion and iLife preinstalled? Did you go through the process of accepting the iLife apps into your Mac App Store account when you first got the MBP?
I am embarrassed to say that in my Applications I just found i Work (not i Life) that was put there when I bought the new MBP in January. I have been using Lion all this year so the only thing that has changed is the upgrade to Mountain Lion. My other devices (iPad, IPhone 4s) do not have any problems with the App store upgrades. So how do I solve this issue? I appreciate any suggestions you can provide. Thanks for the reply.
The prebundled (free) iLife suite apps are; iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. The iWork suite of apps (which is not free) are; Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
What do you see if you open the Mac App Store (MAS), sign into your account in the Store menu and go to the Purchases pane? Are the iLife apps there with Accept buttons?
If not, the only way to recover them may be to start fresh with a Mountain Lion internet restoration. Read particularly the section Restoring iLife applications after Internet Restore of OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion;
When I open MAS I already signed in. The iLife suite apps all have buttons saying upgrade. When I select upgrade all the pop-up message says " You have updates for other accounts. To update this sign in to the account you used to purchase it." I am signed in.
My original iPhoto transferred over to my MBB in January, from an older Mac Book purchased in 2007. I am wondering if iTunes (at that time) did not delete my old info from the Mac Book (which is now assigned to my son.) I remember going through a lot of hoops to delete that account.
I have been using the MAS to purchase and update lots of other apps right along.
My original iPhoto transferred over to my MBB in January, from an older Mac Book purchased in 2007.
Are there currently two versions of the iPhoto app on your MBP? The MAS will only update the MAS version that came preinstalled on the MBP.
Are you using a backup scheme for your MBP, such as Time Machine?
My advice is to download off the internet an app called iPhoto library manager then copy and paste all your pictures then delete iPhoto and start fresh
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