St. Columbkille wrote:
Thanks Luis, I did find it strange. When I go to itunes on my Mac and open Purchased in the itunes store drop-down list I was getting this page (it lists Final Cut Pro with a date of purchase and the price further down the list).
Here's a partial screen shot:
This is good information. It confirms that you bought FCP X under that Apple ID.
I'm glad I took a screen shot as I could find this page up until today. Now I just get this page below and can't work out where to look for non iPhone/iPad app purchases...
I'm beginning to think that the problem must be that I was not in the US when I purchased it even though Apple Support told me that it shouldn't matter if my AppleID was the same.
Like Tom said, you will NOT see Mac apps here. They are shown in the Mac App Store.
You have just raised an important point that I don't recall seeing in this thread. You may have bought software in a different Mac App Store.
If you are seeing an App Store from a country which is not the one where you bought the application, that may explain the whole thing.
Try this: open the Mac App Store, click on Purchases:
At the very bottom, there is a flag indicating which version of the App Store you're in. For example, I'm in Portugal, so my purchases are from the Portuguese App Store, indicated by
This little flag is actually a button. Clicking it one gets to choose a different store. Chose the one where you bought the software and it should be there for you.