How do I delete unwanted updates from Updates and Purchases?

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How do I delete unwanted updates from Updates and Purchases?

When I open App Store on the doc, under Updates, there are some in there that I don't want, and will never want. But it is easy to accidently click the UPDATE button next to them, which I did once by mistake.

Same for the Purchases tab in App Store. How can I remove things from this list?

Reason I've been prompted to ask the question as it tried to download iMovie recently, but it keeps failing and my Launchpad and Applications icons on the dock have a half-completed render progress blue bar through them, which I can not get rid off as iMovie download keeps crashing half way throughn and I don't even want iMovie anyway. How can I fix this iMovie crash issue out?

Posted on Nov 6, 2013 6:15 AM

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Answer 1

brenden dv

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Nov 8, 2013 2:28 PM in response to Nigel-66

Hi Nigel-66,

If you are having issues with updates within the Mac App Store, you may find the following article helpful:

OS X: How to ignore a Software Update

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2357

Regards,

- Brenden

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Answer 2

Nov 8, 2013 4:32 PM in response to brenden dv

This no longer works in mavericks,

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Answer 3

Dec 25, 2013 11:57 AM in response to brenden dv

The Apple article containing instructions on how to ignore updates is erroneous. The described steps do not correlate at all with App Store options in Mountain Lion (yet another lame "update" from Apple). I swear this company is becoming more and more like Micros**t each month. Quite sad. Now on to continue researching how to stop getting prompted every 10 minutes to "upgrade" to Maveriks (an "update" which is frankly not gonna happen on my machine).

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Eric Root

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Dec 25, 2013 2:23 PM in response to chappa-ai

Hide Updates Mountain Lion

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Answer 5

Jan 27, 2014 4:45 AM in response to Nigel-66

I'm running Mavericks 10.9.1 and this is what works for me. Inside the AppStore, right click (two finger tap) on the unwanted update message, then you get a Hide Update option. When checking for updates further on, it shouldn't show that app again.

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Answer 6

Jan 28, 2014 10:10 AM in response to AlexHdzMtnz

I couldn't get that to work. It really is a quite annoying feature

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Nigel-66 Author

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Jan 28, 2014 10:40 AM in response to Mr S Hagger

None of the above work for me on Mavericks. Wish I didn't bother updating to Mav as it has been nothing but trouble. I wish Apple would stop putting anoying garbage into their OS.

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Answer 8

Jan 28, 2014 5:09 PM in response to Nigel-66

I've heard from some people that Mavericks is better and faster, and Apple's best OS yet. Yet I've heard just as many (if not more) complaints about Mavericks and how bad it is. I can tell you from personal experience that Mountain Lion is the Windows Vista of Mac. It is awful and I wish I had never "upgraded" from Snow Leopard, which was MUCH better. I haven't switched to Mavericks yet, despite Apple's persistence that I do, because I really don't want to slide further down the Slippery Slope of recent degradation in Apple "quality".

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Eric Root

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Jan 29, 2014 2:19 PM in response to Nigel-66

Do you still have iMovie in your applications folder? If you don't want the application drag it to the trash. Then you shouldn't receive update notices for it. You may need to re-index Spotlight.

Spotlight – Re-index

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Hobb3s

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Feb 15, 2014 3:00 PM in response to Nigel-66

As AlexHdzMtnz said, you can right click on the update and ignore it, but I had to expand the update's description first. Once I hit "More" to expand the description I was able to right click and ignore.

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