Thanks for the detailed suggestion. Did as you describe, even waited for mdworker to go quiescent, but still no joy. -Carl
> You can try the following, which may or may not work. > > Open System Preferences / Spotlight. Go to the Privacy tab. Drag the > icon of your hard drive into the box. Confirm when it nags you about > that. Leave it in there 30 seconds or so, then take it out. That will > cause a complete Spotlight re-index of your drive, which is known to cure > certain types of App Store colic. > > The reason it may not work is that the iWork suite seems to have a > serial-number-ish validation protocol attached to it in addition to the > usual App Store tracking, and this procedure may be insufficient to > address that. > > > On Dec 23, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > >> We have a new Mac mini and in the App Store it wants us to update Pages. >> So one of the students entered his Apple ID and it popped up a panel >> saying: >> >> * Update Unavailable with This Apple ID * >> This update is not available for this Apple ID either >> because it was bought by a different user or the item >> was refunded or cancelled. >> >> But... there's no way provided to log into a different Apple ID! >> Pressing >> the "Update" button again just brings up the same idiot box skipping the >> login step. >> >> So I log the student out, log into my account, enter my Apple ID, and >> now >> a panel pops up and says: "Unknown Error." with a button on the panel >> that >> says "Sign In", so I click on it. Guess what? Another panel! >> >> * We could not complete your request. * >> There was an error in the App Store. Please >> try again later. (4) >> >> Am I the only one having this lovely user experience? >> -Carl >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
