Pop up for Free Upgrade to Mavericks

John Allen2 wrote:

Delete the App Store app, DL the 10.6..8 COMBO update fromhttp://support.apple.com/kb/dl1399 or use the one you saved, and extract the App Store app from it using Pacifist.

That would be a waste of time since there were no changes made to the AppStore.app itself. It remains v1.0.2 after the update. If you check the contents of the Mac App Store Update 1.0 above you'll see that the app itself isn't updated or modified in any way.

I think way too complicated!

Anyway I find detestable method!
Apple down in my estimation!
We need a pub worthy of their method is to do!

John Allen2 wrote:

One person said to get rid of this popup to:

Delete the App Store app, DL the 10.6..8 COMBO update fromhttp://support.apple.com/kb/dl1399 or use the one you saved, and extract the App Store app from it using Pacifist. I've never installed the Mac App Store update, so I'm not bothered with that crapola.

No. It's not the App Store app that is doing this. It is an app called Noticeboard that Apple recently stuck on your computer.

It is indeed not very Apple-like. It is actually extremely annoying.

If you are comfortable with using the Apple Terminal program, here is a way to eliminate that pop-up:

1. Open the Terminal application

2. Type in (the following is all one line but may appear folded when you read this):

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/No ticeboard.app

You will be asked for you administrator password because Noticeboard.app is "owned" by "root"

DLW9 wrote:

It's not the App Store app that is doing this. It is an app called Noticeboard that Apple recently stuck on your computer.

It is indeed not very Apple-like. It is actually extremely annoying.

Get used to it as it's been built into the AppStore app itself for Mountain Lion and Mavericks all along.

The method you suggest isn't really the best approach as it leaves the LaunchAgent to run every six hours. Unloading and deleting /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist would seem to be a better solution.

That's great information!

I tried to use launchctl to unload as suggested, but that didn't do anything. I just removed the file and rebooted my computer. Six hours later (when Noticeboard should have run again), it didn't. Thank you!

So for everyone else, the commands is simple:

sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist

And then reboot.

Carl Ketterling wrote:

I tried to use launchctl to unload as suggested, but that didn't do anything.

I believe you can avoid the need to reboot by using

launchctl remove com.apple.noticeboard

and deleting the .plist.

One additional warning that I neglected to mention is that I believe there there are other functions for the noticeboard beside just pushing Mavericks upgrades. I suspect that you also get notifications for purchased software updates through this mechanism, so you may need to check Software Update more often without it.

hi allan, can you help me? i keep getting pop ups even though i have blocked them and turned off extensions. you have recently answered a similar question and i noticed you mentioned clean my mac, i have had this on my computer delete it but its still happening?

Instead of posting at the bottom of a thread that has been dead for nearly a year, starting your own thread would be a much better way to get it the attention it deserves.