Updating at Last
Nov. 26th, 2020 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerFor the moment I can still at least contemplate leaping at some point from macOS 10.14 “Mojave” to Big Sur (although a grandiose thought has been wandering through my mind to wait for the iMac to be upgraded to an “Apple Silicon” processor and make an expensive upgrade). In the meantime, though, some applications have begun being updated. The only problem there is that over the past several days I’d been unable to upgrade from the “App Store,” receiving an uninformative error message every time I tried clicking the upgrade button.
This problem had been showing up intermittently for a while, and at one point I tried deleting old versions altogether from “Launchpad” and then installing them from scratch. When I tried that this time, though, I got the same error message again, which was now ominous. After a first search for information, I formed the idea to try checking my App Store account from the bottom left-land corner of the program’s main window, and then clicked on “View Information” in the upper right-hand corner. After entering my Apple ID password, all of a sudden I could reinstall the deleted application, and upgrade the ones I hadn’t deleted to boot. Managing to resolve a hitherto inexplicable problem has improved my mood, and I suppose there’s the slightest chance trying to explain my solution here might help someone else.
This problem had been showing up intermittently for a while, and at one point I tried deleting old versions altogether from “Launchpad” and then installing them from scratch. When I tried that this time, though, I got the same error message again, which was now ominous. After a first search for information, I formed the idea to try checking my App Store account from the bottom left-land corner of the program’s main window, and then clicked on “View Information” in the upper right-hand corner. After entering my Apple ID password, all of a sudden I could reinstall the deleted application, and upgrade the ones I hadn’t deleted to boot. Managing to resolve a hitherto inexplicable problem has improved my mood, and I suppose there’s the slightest chance trying to explain my solution here might help someone else.