OSX app store icon says there are 8 updates, but none show up in the download screen

The OS X app store icon shows 8 updates, which briefly appeared in the download screen, but they immediately disappeared. The icon still shows 8 updates available, however.


Tried closing and reopening the App Store app. Also tried rebooting. Also tried deleting App Store caches. This problem is happening on two of my iMacs.


Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 27, 2016 1:38 PM

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Oct 27, 2016 4:21 PM in response to Pablofp

Worked for me ... but you have to know what the Updates actually are. I assumed all the Apple application suite would be being updated thanks to the MacOS update, and the fact that they'd been updated for IOS, and this proved correct. So, update Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, and GarageBand (click on their names, and in the Store page you'll see the option to Update).


Wonder what's behind the glitch on the Updates tab in the App store?

Oct 27, 2016 7:11 PM in response to Francis A O-'Connor__

I have the same issue and then I looked in the launchpad and a bunch of apps are greyed out to be updated but in a paused state which effectively knocked out a bunch of apps like iMovie, Pages, etc from being useable. Thankfully PabloFP noted that they can be seen in the purchased section and I was able to click on them to make them resume. A distinct lack of testing to miss something like this.

Oct 27, 2016 9:12 PM in response to Richard Buday

Five of the updates are likely, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie and GarageBand. You can update each one by searching on the Purchased pane and clicking the Update button to the far right of the name of the app.


The 6th is likely the new iTunes which can be downloaded and installed manually from here;

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1814?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


Late 2012 Mac mini, macOS 10.12.1;  Watch, 38 mm silver AL, Watch OS 3.1; iPad Air 2 & iPhone 6+, iOS 10.1;  Airport Express

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