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Can't Ignore Updates - 10.9 Mavericks

So I recently updated to OS X Mavericks, and the Mac App Store insists that I update my iMovie and iWork apps. Well, I don't like the updated versions, and I don't want to update. However, there appears to be no way for me to ignore the thing and rid it from my update list in the App Store.


Am I deaf, blind, and dumb or is there just no way for me to ignore the update in Mavericks?

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 31, 2013 9:39 AM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2013 9:41 AM

Welcome to Apple Support Communities


You can't hide updates from apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. What you can hide are Mac OS X updates, but not Mac App Store app updates. You have two options:


1. Keep the update message there.


2. Install the updates. Note that your old iWork applications will still be available if you want to use them, and you will get rid of the update message

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Oct 31, 2013 9:41 AM in response to jebug29

Welcome to Apple Support Communities


You can't hide updates from apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. What you can hide are Mac OS X updates, but not Mac App Store app updates. You have two options:


1. Keep the update message there.


2. Install the updates. Note that your old iWork applications will still be available if you want to use them, and you will get rid of the update message

Nov 2, 2013 2:06 PM in response to mende1

Hi, similar issue. Trying to ignore the iMovie update in Mavericks, because when I try to install it, it tells me my video card isn't compatible and quits. But the update notice will not go away. And will never go away, since I can't install it. This can't be right, that I have to stare at that update notice for all eternity?

Nov 5, 2013 5:24 AM in response to jebug29

Piling on. I need to get Mavericks to stop pestering me to update iPhoto. It wanted to "update" the iPhoto library that I sync with another Mac. That Mac is limited to Lion. Had to use time machine to restore the app to previous version. Cannot install new iPhoto in Lion. Now mavericks is insisting on planning when to install the update. No selection for never, no way out. This is really annoying.

Nov 5, 2013 1:01 PM in response to RobertL39

I found it a little less problematic for Pages, Numbers, Keynote. The update to iWork apps seems to keep the old apps in a folder, so you can load the new ones and then use the old ones. With iPhoto, you cannot run multiple versions, and the library gets update to become incompatible with previous iPhoto versions, apparently including 9.0/

Nov 17, 2013 10:38 AM in response to corinnafromsan juan capistrano

corinnafromsan juan capistrano wrote:


Hi, similar issue. Trying to ignore the iMovie update in Mavericks, because when I try to install it, it tells me my video card isn't compatible and quits. But the update notice will not go away. And will never go away, since I can't install it. This can't be right, that I have to stare at that update notice for all eternity?


I'm having exactly the same problem...can anyone help!?!?

Nov 21, 2013 9:18 AM in response to jebug29

Actually, there WAS a way to mark at least some apps as "hidden" in SU. I actually managed to do that back on Nov. 7, 2013. I posted the directions at a great Mac tech help site.


However, the process seems to have changed considerably since that date. One must now control-click an item in the Purchased list. Then select the only choice in a single-item, popup "list" ("Hide Purchase..."). That ellipsis is the hint that you'll soon get another dialog with more choices. And so you do. You now must verify that you know what you are doing and just some thief amusing himself with some stolen computer. Click the "Cancel" button, if you actually are that thief or just plain sloppy with a mouse and keyboard. The other button is what will finally, again, hide that app from the irritating SU notifications! HOORAY! At last! Well, who knows how long before Apple changes the method? But it works as of today. :crazy:

Nov 21, 2013 9:55 AM in response to xairbusdriver

Good to know, but unfortunately that doesn't work for some updates from Apple, since they don't show up in the purchases list. For example I installed FCP X. Later it prompted me to install some supplemental content update, which supposedly contains a bunch of sound effects, etc. I don't want that, but can't figure out how to not make it remind me every single day.

Nov 21, 2013 10:24 AM in response to spookybathtub

I think part of the problem is that "Purchased" doesn't actually mean the same thing as "Paid for." I suspect it really only means "downloaded." Gotta remember, Apple is in business to make money, despite providing Mavericks for free! 😕 Even though Mavericks is free, it still shows up in the "Purchases" list. With this possibility in mind, I'd suggest you go ahead and download the "supplemental" stuff (I am assuming it is free, BTW). You should then be able to use the "Purchases" page/screen to control-click that stuff and hide it from further update notifications.


The problem, in my humble opinion, is that not much thought was put into the App Store concept. We (Apple) now has a system designed for purchases which may actually be free. Oops! They then decided this "Store" should let us know when the things we bought/downloaded were updated. "Easy! We'll just create Notifications and everyone will know about the updates even if they don't check email" (which was a fine method 'back-in-the-days, of course). But Apple forgot that people don't always continue to use or even want everything they ever downloaded, even if the paid for it! They then devised a way to hide the methods they use to see what we've bought or downloaded and created a database to keep track of the stuff we dont care about.


Long story short, this is an almost exact description of bloatware. An app starts out doing one thing, maybe even in a great way, then managers start thinking of things it could also do. Some of those new things may not be desirable but they get added, anyway. Eventually, things start interacting with other things and people have problems or the app starts crashing or... I blame this SU pronlem and certainly the iWorks Suite fiasco on many of the managers at Apple who seem to have forgot the basics of Apple's philosophy: Make things work, always, easily, intuitively and beautifully. Nobody said that's easy. You want 'easy' go work for MS! 😝

Dec 4, 2013 2:12 PM in response to jebug29

Here's my workaround to getting the App Store to quit nagging me about updating iWork. I worked this out after determing that I couldn't update the applications since my Mac is old (barely able to run Mavericks) and I originally bough iWork as part of a DVD family pack.


The jist of the workaround is that the App Store uses Spotlight to determine what's installed. You have to make the applications invisiable to Spotlight and als 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.

Dec 5, 2013 10:43 PM in response to Paul Melzer

Paul,


This thread is discussing a problems where

  • right clicking to ignore the update does not work in Mavericks in the Updates tab;
  • some updates will always fail to download/install (iMovie with certain video cards); and
  • applications installed from DVD are not in the Purchased tab, so they can't be marked as ignored.


The solution from Macrumors is for 10.8 not 10.9.

Can't Ignore Updates - 10.9 Mavericks

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