Yeah same for me. I hear the pop sound when I try and click the installed dimmed button. I don't want to create a new account so hopefully apple can and will fix this with a service pack or what ever it's called in the apple world. lol! On Jul 28, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> 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/> <--- 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/>. 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