Ya so MAS is *really* aggressive here, I think due to the fact that in OS X an application is a bundle, and you can put a bundle anywhere. They had to account for that.
Unfortunately you run into issues like this. I think what you could probably do is whenever you want to upgrade something that's in the MAS (not just Growl), you could just detach your external drives and that'll take care of it. It would be interesting to see if what you did with Spotlight helps here, but I think it's actually something else that affects it and not spotlight. -- Chris Forsythe On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 9:58 AM, xairbusdriver wrote: > After two Restarts (with external drive connected and one without) the > App Store is back to reporting Growl as "Installed" and not allowing > re-downloading. To me this implies that with any traces of any Growl > resources on the drive, it is simply not available for another > download. > > Just for grins, I edited the Spotlight prefers to *not* include the > external partitions in its index (although I have not yet deleted the > current index). That may or may not affect the 're-install' > availability. > > At least I can feel confident that Growl is correctly installed. it is > still in the Menu Bar and the Applications folder. > > The InstallHistory.plist shows an entry for the date/time I re- > downloaded "Growl" but the older download/install data remains. I have > no idea of how long data might remain in that file or if it is ever > 'cleared' of old info. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
