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I'm very sceptical of this Mac App Store. As much as I like the idea (apt anyone? :-D) I am very disappointed by it's performance. Neither on SL nor on Lion does it let me update bought apps. Doing the "drag app to trash, click `install', empty trash" mumbo is not really my idea of "working".

If anyone has similar issues, or a fix, that would truly be great!




MAS always updates my purchased apps. I have however heard of it declining to do so if you have, on some attached hard drive, a newer or same-version binary or installer. But have had no problems with MAS myself. YMMV.


Why the downvotes? And no, clicking "update" did /not/ work!

Found the solution: This happens if you have "Macintosh HD" listed under the privacy tab of Spotlight's System Preferences.


http://bugreport.apple.com/


Thank you. Good idea; reported.


There is an obscure button in the App Store called Updates that will update purchased apps.




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