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Q: How do i stop the app store from prompting me to update Pages?

I don't want to update to the new version of Pages until they make the Maverick version as fullscale as 4.3.

Call me  cranky, but I find the incessant update notifications  annoying.

Thanks in advance

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 18, 2014 3:31 PM

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Q: How do i stop the app store from prompting me to update Pages?

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  • by chiMaxx,

    chiMaxx chiMaxx Sep 17, 2014 3:41 PM in response to ThisIssue
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    Sep 17, 2014 3:41 PM in response to ThisIssue

    There's still no answer to the question here. After trying it several times on backup versions of files, I decided I don't want Pages 5. I uninstalled it two days ago and used Get Info to make all my Pages documents once again open with Pages 2009.

     

    Now the App Store wants to install it again, and I don't want it. Ctrl-clicking on the application name takes me to the app page, where there is no option not to download it. Ctrl-clicking on the Update button starts the download process. I'm not seeing any way to tell the App Store that I don't want this product. I don't want to have to keep delaying downloads to tomorrow every day, and I don't want to have to keep downloading and uninstalling Pages 5 every time there's some other new update available.

     

    So, whatever you think of my choice to stick with Pages 2009 rather than using Pages 5, can someone please tell me how to stop the App Store from tring to force me to download and install this app update?

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    ThisIssue ThisIssue Sep 17, 2014 5:12 PM in response to chiMaxx
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    Sep 17, 2014 5:12 PM in response to chiMaxx

    I doubt there's any way you can get the App store to stop hard-selling you Pages 5, but maybe what I did – until I decided I liked Pages 5 – might help you.

     

    You can have both your old iWork Pages '09 & the new Pages 5 installed on the same computer, as I have them. You don't need to partition.

    Pages 5 does not install into the iWork folder that holds Pages 2009, it installs into the Applications folder.

    You can have them both in the dock at the same time and I've even had them both open with different documents at the same time, side by side in the same desktop, no problem.

     

    One way to stop the prompts would be: keep the iWork Pages as you have it, download the new Pages 5 & if you really can't bear to look at it, stick it in a folder of its own, maybe titled "do not open under penalty of death!" – I'm not mocking you, that's what I would do myself.

    After that, you may have to update Pages 5 from time to time but you can keep using iWork Pages 2009.

     

    As I said, I now use Pages 5 for most things. Occasionally I need my old iWork Pages 2009 for a particular document or two & it launches without a hitch, entirely workable.

    To reiterate, I use both versions of Pages on the same computer without any problems for either of them.

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