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I deleted these apps from my MacBook Air because I am trying to save the space. I already have MS Office so I don't need these. I deleted them and as soon as I logged on again it wants to download them again. How do I delete them permanently?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
They are deleted unless you re-download them. When you open App Store each entry should have a "more" link. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on that link and select the option to hide them. That way they will no longer prompt you to download them.
Here is what the update page on the App store looks like. I do not see the "More" link.
Look carefully. I see the link for each one. It's blue and appears at the end of the description.
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If I right click that link nothing happens. And yes, I have right click enabled on my Magic Mouse.
If I "Control-click" it loads the full description, just like a regualr click would do. (I do not have a CTRL key) If I do a Command-click it just shows the full description also. I must be missing something. Really I consider myself somewhat computer-savvy but I must be blind or something...
I've never had a problem with that, so I don't really know why it wouldn't function for you. You might check under the App Store's App Store menu for an option to hide updates.
If I go to Purchases I can right click the appname and get the option to hide the purchase
Not sure if that will also prevent you from getting the message you are getting.
For the record if I cannot click the more link in the updates section and have anything show either.
From Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases
Note: You will no longer receive update notifications for items after they've been hidden from your Purchases page.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano
Frank,
That's not the same. That just hides the item in the Purchases list, but will not do what the OP should be able to do in App Store. In the App Store it should do what you could do in Software Update - Ignore it.
Llike the OP none of my more links are right clickable.
Could you post a screen shot of what you are seeing?
thanks
Correct. It is hidden on the Purchases page, but it still shows up on the "Update" page. Note that I have treied rebooting after hiding them on the Purchases page and nothing works.
i can ignore it, but I am likely to miss something important if I do.
My second post above show a screen shot of my Update page.
Actually I was asking kappy to post what he sees because like you I get nothing when I click the more link on the updates page.
I suppose something has changed in the App Store because as the link I posted indicates if the item is hidden on the purchases page that should (or use to) stop update notifications. Which makes sense, if I hid a purchase why would I want to know about updates for it.
regards
It will only work for an incoming new update. It doesn't work on those displayed that you have already installed.
Usually, with a new incoming update you pass the cursor over the "more" link and it will turn into a hand with a pointing finger. Then CTRL- or RIGHT-clicking will bring up the context menu. Unfortunately, I have no new updates waiting to demonstrate from my computer.
Kappy
do you have the debug menu set in the Mac App Store app?
Searching around on the web seems to indicate that with Mavericks it is not possible to hide updates but one site mention turning on the debug menu to make this available
According to this site
if you enable the debug menu in the App Store you then have the ability to right click and hide an update as kappy wrote.
This is the command to run in the Terminal to turn on the debug menu
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool TRUE;
once you run the command restart the App Store and you should see the additon of Debug in the menu bar right after help.
I've turned it on here but I have no updates so I can't test the right click to see if Hide does show up.
you reverse the above command (remove the debug menu) do
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool FALSE;
But leaving the debug menu on will not cause any problems.
I do not have it turned on, Frank. I did find this link which could help the OP:
How do I get rid of Pages, Keynote and Numbers?
