Keep getting notification to update iPhoto. iPhoto not on my 5K iMac. How do I make it go away?

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Keep getting notification to update iPhoto. iPhoto not on my 5K iMac. How do I make it go away?

Last Wednesday, before I updated my 5K iMac (Late 2014) to El Capitan I started getting a notification to update iPhoto to version 9.6.1. iPhoto is not installed on my iMac which came with Yosemite installed on it and I don't think iPhoto was ever installed on it. After I updated to El Capitan, I am still getting the notice in Apple Store Updates. When I click to run the update, I get the message that the update is not currently available in the Apple Store. I am not interested in having iPhoto on my iMac. How do I make the notices go away? I know in Windows, you can hide updates you do not want, but that doesn't seem to be available on Macs.

Posted on Oct 7, 2015 10:11 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Oct 7, 2015 2:39 PM in response to texas44

Open a search window by pressing the key combination command-F in the Finder. Select This Mac as the search scope and search for the app(s) in question by name. Delete any copies that you find.

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morrispe

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Oct 7, 2015 8:24 PM in response to texas44

Do you have a backup volume still connected to your iMac which could contain an old copy of iPhoto. I seem to recall having issues similar to this and I found that Spotlight was indexing my external backup drive. If so try adding your backup to the Privacy tab in Spotlight settings so its contents aren't seen by Spotlight.

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