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 > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
