Ever since the App Store app crashed it now always shows one update available, however, when I switch over to the UPDATES section, the only app it shows (CraigShopper, FYI) is already updated.
How do I get rid of this annoying and erroneous message that 1 Update Available?
PM 2x2.3, MP 2x2.66 Duo, MP 2x2.8 Quad and MBP 2.26 Duo Unibody, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
What do you have that is hidden?
Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases
What do you have that is hidden?
Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases
There are no hidden applications. I verified by going through the steps in the link you provided.
Again, the only application showing under UPDATES is CraigShopper, but it shows as INSTALLED.
Next Step...
Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
Mac App Store: Cannot update App Store purchases or updates do not seem available
I am having Spotlight index my boot drive and will complete in just over an hour and a half. I disabled it because my boot drive is a 60GB SSD with only 15GB free space so I did not want it to be filled with any Spotlight indices. Hopefully it will not take up too much space...
Spotlight saves all its index-related files in the .Spotlight-V100 directory at the root level of a volume it has indexed.
If this doesn't resolve the issue, you can go back to how it was before, and we'll try something different 😝
Just a status update:
While Spotlight was indexing I had a power outtage rendering my SSD boot drive as unbootable. I booted into the recovery partition and had to reinstall Mountain Lion and was able to boot the SSD successfully.
The Mac Store still showed 1 Update Available, but this time the lone app (CraigShopper) was shown as INSTALL, so I had it reinstall. Unfortunately, that didn't get rid of the irritating 1 Update Available.
So I'm starting the Spotlight indexing again and crossing my fingers I don't go through another power interruption...
Re-indexed Spotlight but alas, that did not resolve this issue 😟
Holy Cow, what horrible bad timing for bad luck.
Anyhow, could have been worse (hardware fried).
Do you use time machine, or another backup mechanism like SuperDuper, etc? Often the MAS can see older BACKUPS if apps on another volume, and then it gets stuck in a stupid method of wanting to update THAT backup, despite your already have the newest version on another volume.
No Time Machine but I do use ChronoSync. However, that only backups data to another drive on the Mac Pro; no apps are backed up.
On that note, 4 of the 5 drives in the Mac Pro (4 in regular bays plus the SSD on the "extra" SATA port) have an OS on them: 10.8, 10.7, 10.6 and a dual-booting Windows (XP/7). Most of my applications are on the 10.7 drive and I'm normally booted on the 10.8 SSD drive. This has not resulted in any erroneous updates available before; it was only after the App Store app crashed on my 10.8 drive that it started flagging an update available.
I also have CraigShopper on the 10.7 drive, but that was updated to the latest version as well when I was booted into 10.7 and used its App Store to update it.
I could disconnect all other drives and boot the SSD to see if the error is still present...
Please do...
I finally got around to disconnecting all other drives and the "ghost update" disappeared... until I reconnected the drives back up. Interesting thing is, I added each drive, restarted, then launched the Mac App Store. The ghost update did not reappear until I added the final drive, which is only a data drive (no apps are installed whatsoever on it).
I haven't tried a lengthy "normal" usage as I add each drive, which is probably next on my investigative process...
A status update:
So I replaced my 60GB SSD boot drive with a larger 512GB since I was always running out of room. Did a clean install then migrated all settings. Now the "phantom" update available is gone!
Certainly a bug somewhere, perhaps involving a preference file...
Thanks for the update Ken, hate it when the true culprit isn't 100% dug out. But at least the issue is of no concern anymore.
I've found for me, if you go to System Preferences, Spotlight, Privacy, and tell it not to look at a backup drive, then the 'Updates Available' when they aren't issue goes away
Many thanks for this info which helped me. I have an older version of OS X on one of my external drives listed in Spotlight and once removed from that list cleared the Updates Available (for 1Password app).
App Store shows Updates Available but no apps to update
