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Avoid a Clean Install of macOS 26 Beta if you need Mac App Store apps...

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So just an FYI to everyone and alot of people are noticing it. There is a bug in both Beta 2 and 3 that has not been fixed that is in the Mac App Store. If you hit your name on the lower left sidebar, you will notice your purchased apps list is very small. most of your purchased apps are missing. Any app that is NOT installed on your Mac currently, wants you to repurchase or GET again. If you go into Account Setting and look through your purchased receipts, you will find that you did purchase them, but you can't access them.
If you log into the App Store on a non-beta Mac, everything shows up find for your purchased apps. This is a major bug.
If you do a clean install, and need certain apps on the App Store, there is a good chance you will NOT be able to download them until this bug is fixed.
I reported it own beta 2 and again now on beta 3. Apple has Not responded yet. But others are reporting the same issues. And I believe alot of others are unaware because they don't need apps that aren't currently installed in their system.

And this only affects macOS apps in the App Store, if you click the iPhone/iPad Apps tab, they all show up fine in your purchased apps. Hopefully this is fixed in beta 4. But avoid a clean install so you don't get stuck with no way to download your apps.
 
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I just submitted a bug report for this as well as resubmitted a bug report for the inability to reload the updates panel in the App Store. In my case, both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are among the missing apps, so a clean install is not an option for me at this time.
 
dmccloud said:
I just submitted a bug report for this as well as resubmitted a bug report for the inability to reload the updates panel in the App Store. In my case, both Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are among the missing apps, so a clean install is not an option for me at this time.
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That's why I posted, so people who need apps, DO NOT do a clean install of the beta, especially on a main machine because they will be done for. I don't ever remember a beta where this happened and don't even know how it's possible. But it is a bug because I logged into the App Store on a spare non-beta Mac, and all my purchases apps were there like normal. So 100% a beta issue. Still again just not sure how a bug like this would even be.
And I even counted, on a non-beta Mac, my purchased Mac apps how 77 apps, on the beta, it only shows me 12 purchased Mac apps. And luckily some not showing are installed so I don't have to worry too much unless I need an app NOT installed and then I'm SOL until a fix comes out...
 
I'm running beta 9 and this bug is still not fixed. Most of my previously purchased apps are missing in the purchased history. And already installed apps won't automatically update (even with reload page in Mac App Store the updates won't show up). We are close to RC and I can't believe this is not fixed.
 
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I'm running beta 9 and this bug is still not fixed. Most of my previously purchased apps are missing in the purchased history. And already installed apps won't automatically update (even with reload page in Mac App Store the updates won't show up). We are close to RC and I can't believe this is not fixed.
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See my post here--



It's a shame this is being shut down. This is one of my most used apps. Much like how Bartender was sold, hopefully someone better buys out this app.
 
FridgeToaster said:
I'm running beta 9 and this bug is still not fixed. Most of my previously purchased apps are missing in the purchased history. And already installed apps won't automatically update (even with reload page in Mac App Store the updates won't show up). We are close to RC and I can't believe this is not fixed.
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Yes it is a cache bug that has not been fixed. You have to delete App Store cache files to fix it. I don't think anyone posted the fix on here. Here is the fix for both the app missing and updates not working from the Apple Dev forums... I just copied it and pasted it which is why it's written in first person.

Quit the App Store and put its container into trash (which lost me my avatar in the App Store account).
(~/Library/Containers/com.apple.AppStore ,aka "App Store")
Launched App Store, but the apps in my account were still limited to just a few after that.
So I went into account settings and unhid an app (after clicking "unhide" I just clicked 'done', since nothing visual happened, but it did unhide).
Back at my account's apps - they were still limited to just a few.
I changed the tab to "iPhone & iPad Apps" and back to "Mac Apps"
All apps appeared, roughly some 170.
I put back the old container from the trash (with App Store quit) - my avatar returned
Apps were still all there.

...after that...

I went to "Updates" and nothing displayed.
Clicked in the white space to activate the reload button and reloaded.
9 Updates appeared.
 
I hate to state the obvious but this is but one reason why I prefer to hold off on installing new operating systems and avoid betas. I actually got burned years ago, when I installed a macOS beta, and it destroyed my fusion drive. I learned my lesson from then on I will not install a beta operating system.
 
If Tahoe is as good as they claim, therefore I am pondering reinstalling that OS from scratch.
mainly just to omit the files photos, albums I don't need daily or weekly
and to keep at least 50GB free on both 265GB M1 drives.
I'm learning the hard way that  unifies drives with RAM and storage this decade.
the system settings is still annoying compared to Monterey, but whadda do?
both M1s have sequoia onto of Monterey.
 
I agree with maflynn above (reply 8).

I -do- like to experiment with new OS releases (in developer and beta editions), so...
I install beta OS's onto an EXTERNAL drive, and boot and try them that way.

Doing it this way "leaves the internal drive alone" and it's worked well enough for me so far...
 
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