Running Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 (12F45), and App Store Version 1.2.2 (129.16). The "App Store" app shows an available update in the Dock Icon (i.e. a 1 inside a red circle), but there is actually no applicable update to be downloaded. Running "software update" does not clear this indicator.
While this is hardly the most earth-shattering bug in the universe, perhaps the Apple folks will read this report and fix the problem.
When you open the App Store, and click Updates in the upper right corner, does it come up empty? Try clicking Store, Reload Page and see if it theif finds an update.
No joy. Also deleted the plist file and rebooted. Same result.
When I run App Store (and when I "reload page") all it shows is the free upgrade to Mavericks, yet the dock icon shows one applicable update.
Can this be that Apple is now counting Mavericks in the applicable updates? Up until yesterday, this certainly was not the case.
And, my wife's iMac, with one year newer hardware but nominally the same OS, does not display this anomaly.
Open your iTunes. Does it say there is an update? If so, then App Store won't show that update. I am seeing this on my Mac OS X 10.8.5 machine, but not my 10.9.4 and 10.7.5 machines. I think Apple messed up somewhere. 😟
A gold star for you! This was exactly the problem. I opened iTunes, updated, and now AppStore.app is happy.
old Bill wrote:
A gold star for you! This was exactly the problem. I opened iTunes, updated, and now AppStore.app is happy.
Oh thanks. Finally, Apple fixed it. Even launching iTunes didn't fix App Store. Now, it works. 🙂
bug in Software Update?
