Mac App Store Updates stuck in "Waiting". Anyone had this issue before?

Hi,


I stumbled upon this issue yesterday where I had a software update waiting for me at the Mac App Store, and when I hit the update button on the store, the update got stuck in the "Waiting" message that appears to the left side of the "UPDATE" button. The updates did not appeared to download nor start, they just got stuck in the "waiting" stage. Moving to the "featured" section of the app store did not worked to re-highlight the UPDATE button in the update section of the Mac App Store page. The only way I was able to solve the issue was by Force Quitting the Mac App Store and trying again. On the second attempt, when I clicked the UPDATE button the "Waiting" message appeared but then disappeared and showed the expected download and install progressbar in the Mac App Store updates.


I was wondering if someone has seen a similar issue to the one I am describing.


Thanks for your time and answers!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Core i5 2.53; 4GB; NVIDIA 330m 256

Posted on Mar 5, 2013 1:27 PM

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Mar 8, 2013 7:50 PM in response to dominic23

dominic23 wrote:


This happens sometimes.


You did the right thing, tried again.


Best.

Hi dominic23,


I see... Well this bugs me off course because is not the normal behavior that I would expect from OS X, but if it sometimes happens, I'll be OK with that. I don't know but I may file a bug report to Apple on this so that they at least know of the issue.


Thanks for the advise!

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