Hi Esther, 
Pressing the dimmed "Installed" button does nothing. I did try the update 
option for the App store but that said that no updates were available. 

Am I correct in thinking that Lion let you re-install items previously 
purchased from the Mac Ap store? 

I could create a new App Store account as you suggest but that seems over the 
top. instead I have recovered a growl.app from my time machine backup and run 
that. It is growl 1.4 as desired but I don't think it has installed fully as 
the growl icon is not present in system preferences. Looking at the package 
contents for growl.app I found a launch growl.app which let me enter the growl 
preferences. This is all a bit of a hack but hopefully it will do the job. 
Best regards....

Paul Hopewell
On 28 Jul 2012, at 21:19, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> Does clicking on the dimmed button do anything? (Is it possible that the 
> announcement of "dimmed" doesn't reflect true status?)  What happens when you 
> choose the "Updates" menu instead?  I'd guess that if an app were purchased, 
> but you somehow deleted it, the "Purchased" menu entry would be dimmed but if 
> it were updated since it was deleted it would have an active button in the 
> "Updates" menu.  Since Growl had a version update just last month, this 
> should work. 
> 
> Short of that, the only thing I can think of is to create another account 
> that you associate with your iTunes ID for the Mac App Store.  That should 
> count as one of your iTunes account activations, but it should treat this as 
> though you were starting up on a new computer -- everything should be 
> downloadable.  A bit weird if you have to move a downloaded app that way, 
> though.
> 
> This does bring up another potential issue about the Mac App Store: like the 
> App Store for your iPhone, apps can come and go.  I believe that the new 
> version 4 of TextExpander won't be offered in the Mac App Store, because it 
> doesn't meet the requirements for sandboxing.  
> 
> And I'm also wondering about differences between the version of DVDRemaster 
> Pro sold through the Mac App Store and the ones that were purchased outside 
> the App Store now that version 8 has arrived.  It sounds as though Fairmount, 
> the program that you need to deal with encryption (if you don't have the 
> relevant bit of VLC already on your system), has been spun off to the people 
> who make Mac DVDRipper Pro, so they're letting us get Mac DVDRipper Pro  at a 
> discounted price with a (paid) update to version 8 of DVDRemaster Pro (until 
> July 31).  But this must be different for the folks who bought this through 
> the Mac App Store.
> 
> HTH.  Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>> I am having problems on Mountain Lion re-installing an App previously 
>> installed from the Mac App store on Lion. I went to the purchases menu but 
>> could not see an active install button for the required app. I thought that 
>> on Lion you could re-install an App from the Mac App store via the purchases 
>> menu. the FAQW for the Mac App store say that you can indeed re-install an 
>> An App previously installed from the Mac App store. On Mountain Lion all 
>> that I can see is a dimmed install button. 
>> Is this an Apple bug? 
>> Best regards....
>> 
>> Paul Hopewell 
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