"Ignore Update" option nolonger available post-Mavericks?!

I have the same prob but with iMovie. My video card will not support the update so I do not need to look at the update anymore. Would really like to get rid of it.

What happens if you go to the tab with purchased products and click the (X) button in front of the 'installed' button? Will it stop offering updates?

When you mouse over an app in the Purchases list an X appears. Clicking that X will hide the app from the list and should stop the update alerts.

I tried blocking software update for one app via the terminal:

sudo softwareupdate --ignore Keynote

This puts it on the ignore list for Software Update, but it looks like it isn't working in App Store. Anyone have an idea how to do this in App Store?

Well , i think i figured it out.

you have to right click the update description , you have to right click while your mouse hover over the word not an empty space.

10.9 and i had the same issue as you until i found the solution , like i told you

go to the update description and hover your mouse over a word of it and then just right-click and you will see the menu to hide the update , just give it a try and it will work 🙂

No luck. Hovering over a word (any particular word?) and then control-clicking (or option clicking or command clicking) does absolutely nothing.

Same here: Hovering over a word (any particular word?) and then control-clicking (or option clicking or command clicking) does absolutely nothing. Alt- or Ctrl-Clicking the update button just starts the update. And Alt- or Ctrl-Clicking the name of the app takes you to the description page.

Easiest fix for the nagging red dot with number of uninstalled updates is to take the App Store out of your dock. Maybe not what Apple wanted, but they got it.

It works for me. If there is a "more" button on the description, click it. THEN right click on a word - not a bold word or a heading, just a description word - and it should give you a "hide update" option.

Yes, but if there is no "more" button you are back to square one.

What I did was balance whether I wanted a crippled new version of an Apple app (so intent to make everything IOS that Apple has forgotten that its the software that also counts, and a MacPro isn't an iPad) or just junk the version it wants to update and start using a much older version that was still on my drive. So I junked Pages 09 and will, if needed, use Pages 08. Or Word.

But Mavericks is such a lame duck.

I used to be able to drag a window to the side of the display and that window would go into the next desktop. I guess its another feature of Mavericks that you can't do that any more - or is there a super duper hidden option buried somewhere in a preference pane (really starting to be more and more like Windows).

The more I use Mavericks, the more I hate it. Now I have to command-click on a folder to have it open in a new window. Before, it was just double click. Fast, effecient. I guess its Apple trying to get us to use window tabs, which might be great if I was using an iPad but not for a Mac. Too bad Apple hasn't figured out that a pad or a phone are for one thing, and desktops and laptops are for other things. I can't see myself loading in an Aperture library of 168 gig (usual few weeks of shooting) and edit it on an iPad, but strange things are happening in Aperture 3.5.1, such as after an edit the edited file ends up at the beginning of the images, though it was located 500 frames down. Click again and the image goes back into the proper order, but now I have to scroll down to 500 images to find the next image to edit. Another merging of IOS and Mac OS?

I'm just ranting. One thing after another with Mavericks. More frustration than even a free download is worth.

Here's my workaround to getting the App Store to quit nagging me about updating iWork.

The jist of the workaround is that the App Store uses Spotlight to determine what's installed. You have to make the applications invisible to Spotlight and also make the App Store forget it ever saw them on your computer.

1. In Systems Preferences > Spotlight, privacy tab; add the iWork subfolder ( e.g. /Applications/iWork '09) to locations which Spotlight will not search.
2. Delete the root partition Spotlight database. From the command line enter:

   sudo mdutil -Ei off /

3. Reset the App Store and delete the App Store cookies.

   See this discussion for instructions.

4. Quit the App Store.
5. Rebuild the Spotlight Database for the root partition. From the command line enter:

   sudo mdutil -i on /

Once the Spotlight database is rebuilt you can open and log back into the App Store. You should have any notices about the applications in the ignored folders selected in step 1 above.

Good luck.

Control click anywhere below the update title to get the ignore button. Hovering and clicking "More" first is not necessary.