T2Kid
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Q: update available for another user's apps

I just purchased a brand new iMac & set up two users with separate usernames/passwords.  Now the app store says I have updates for apps that I don't have, nor want. These are apps that my wife downloaded under her username/profile.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 26, 2013 10:54 PM

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Q: update available for another user's apps

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  • by mende1,

    mende1 mende1 Jan 26, 2013 10:58 PM in response to T2Kid
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    Jan 26, 2013 10:58 PM in response to T2Kid

    Have you logged in with your wife's Apple ID? If you want to update them, you have to log in your wife's Apple ID on the App Store. Also, see > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4236

  • by T2Kid,

    T2Kid T2Kid Jan 26, 2013 11:25 PM in response to mende1
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    Jan 26, 2013 11:25 PM in response to mende1

    I haven't logged in with her ID, I'm sure she will update them when she does log in. I guess my issue is seeing them at all under my ID.  Also if I have updates available will she see those in her app store? We set up separate User's so they would be "separate".

  • by mende1,

    mende1 mende1 Jan 26, 2013 11:28 PM in response to T2Kid
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    Jan 26, 2013 11:28 PM in response to T2Kid

    You are seeing her app updates and she will see your app updates because App Store searches all the hard disk to find App Store apps.

     

    Also, applications are installed by default on a common folder for both users (/Applications), so you can try to move the App Store applications to ~/Applications (being ~ your user folder). Doing this, the other user shouldn't be able to see app updates for your Apple ID as you can't access to one user folder from a different one