Mac App Store Updates

Hi, recently my MacBook Pro had a heart attack and I had to reinstall Snow Leopard. It wouldn't boot (this is before I reinstalled Snow Leopard) so I backed up all of my files and Applications using Terminal. Now that the Mac is worling and I have set everything back up, including applications, the updates section in the App Store doesn't work, when I know that a few of them have an update. t just says "All apps are up to date". I go into the Purchases section and it has an option to update a few applications, but when click that it says that I must sign in to the account that I used to purchase the application (which I already am). I don't have enough bandwidth to download every application again (I have Xcode and 13 other games and 100mb apps). Can someone please help me with an alternative to downloading them all again?

Thanks,

Adam

Even if you "update" them you are still redownloading the app. Its just like iOS updates.

The updates will only work if the MAS installed an application. So, if you installed an app manually, it has to be updated manually.

vansmith said:

The updates will only work if the MAS installed an application. So, if you installed an app manually, it has to be updated manually.

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Ok, thanks.