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Mac App Store Notes: Recognizing Previously-Installed Apps, Pricing Discounts
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I used the "Property List Editor" which comes with the installation of the Developer Tools from Apple...
Hi i bought 2011 macbook pro with preinstalled ilife but it's not recogni2ed by the mac app store. what i must do to fix that?
It won't be because you did not get it from the app store. You can still get updates to iLife through software update, so it won't be a problem.
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Getting iWork to update to 2013 on my MacBook. THIS WORKED FOR ME.
I have iWork '09 (was that the last one?!?) and had gotten it as a download (NOT and app store download, maybe trial download then purchase, maybe trial than purchase CD?) and I was having problems getting it to update after updating to Mavericks.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN COINCIDENTAL, but I'd tried a few different things (in their own folder, out of the folder and checked the plist) and rebooted a few times but no luck. I finally saw a recommendation to reinstall one of the old iWork '09 updaters. Here's the links at Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1563
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1563/en_US/iWork_9.3_Update.dmg
So I updated, once I rebooted my one machine, it worked fine and updated to the new versions. I also ran it on the other machine and I'm pretty sure I did not reboot and when I next relaunched the app store, it worked on that one too. FYI, it's was 398 MB and was slow to run (even on my MB Air).
It might have been coincidence, and it just finally worked. But that's when it worked for me.
It LOOKS like it's in the system as a puchase, but the date column isn't labeled: is that purchase date (I didn't buy it yesterday) or is it an updated date (my iMovie was updated yesterday, but the date is still old) is the question? I didn't see it in there yesterday, but I heard they were having problems. So I'm not sure if Apple has flagged it as an app store app that I "own" or it's just updating the software on my machine; just in case, I'll be sticking the above update on my backup drive (with other purchases) so if a machine ever dies I can get it going again.
Gary
I have iWork '09 (was that the last one?!?) and had gotten it as a download (NOT and app store download, maybe trial download then purchase, maybe trial than purchase CD?) and I was having problems getting it to update after updating to Mavericks.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN COINCIDENTAL, but I'd tried a few different things (in their own folder, out of the folder and checked the plist) and rebooted a few times but no luck. I finally saw a recommendation to reinstall one of the old iWork '09 updaters. Here's the links at Apple.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1563
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1563/en_US/iWork_9.3_Update.dmg
So I updated, once I rebooted my one machine, it worked fine and updated to the new versions. I also ran it on the other machine and I'm pretty sure I did not reboot and when I next relaunched the app store, it worked on that one too. FYI, it's was 398 MB and was slow to run (even on my MB Air).
It might have been coincidence, and it just finally worked. But that's when it worked for me.
It LOOKS like it's in the system as a puchase, but the date column isn't labeled: is that purchase date (I didn't buy it yesterday) or is it an updated date (my iMovie was updated yesterday, but the date is still old) is the question? I didn't see it in there yesterday, but I heard they were having problems. So I'm not sure if Apple has flagged it as an app store app that I "own" or it's just updating the software on my machine; just in case, I'll be sticking the above update on my backup drive (with other purchases) so if a machine ever dies I can get it going again.
Gary
