OS X Yosemite Recovery Update Version 1.0 has installed itself 12 times and still shows as ready to install in Software Update. How can I delete all but one update and stop the App Store from sending me more?
iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Turn off FileVault and apply the update.
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > FileVault
If this doesn't help, disconnect all external hard drives after ejecting those properly and try updating.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Select
/var/log ▹ install.log
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. The contents of the log will appear on the right. Each log message begins with a timestamp. Select the messages from the time of the last installation or update attempt. If you're not sure when that was, click the Clear Display button in the toolbar of the Console window and then try the installation again. Select the new messages that appear. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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I manually installed OS X Yosemite Recovery Update (when prompted there are updates to install), but it shows several times under Updates Installed in Last 30 days, AND still under Update Available.
I had FileVault turned off by default.
This is my last install log:
May 14 22:00:04 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: Proceed with full scan based on intervening install (including Safari at 2015-05-14 13:51:37 +0000) (last scan: 2015-05-14 13:45:22 +0000)
May 14 22:00:04 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: SoftwareUpdate: Scan for client pid 185 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated)
May 14 22:00:05 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: Adding client SUUpdateServiceClient pid=874, uid=501, installAuth=NO rights=(), transactions=0 (/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.W ebKit.WebContent.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.WebContent)
May 14 22:00:05 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: SoftwareUpdate: Catalog Not Modified since last scan ("414b5-515fbf7a036c0")
May 14 22:00:05 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: SoftwareUpdate: Using catalog https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-l ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
May 14 22:00:18 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: JS: my.target.isDisallowedForCoreStorageOperations = false
May 14 22:00:19 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: JS: 10.10.3
May 14 22:00:26 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: SoftwareUpdate: elapsed scan time = 21.4
May 14 22:00:26 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: Scan (f=0, d=0) found 1 updates: 031-20634 (plus 123 predicate-only)
May 14 22:00:26 42-2-16-172.static.netvigator.com softwareupdated[185]: Ramped updates marked
I had the same problem.
Clicked on another post and this helped get rid of that annoying notification badge:
OS X Yosemite Recovery Update Version 1.0 has installed itself 12 times and still shows as ready to install in Software Update. How can I delete all but one update and stop the App Store from sending me more?
