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Apple Computing Products:
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App Store: "There is not enough disk space available to install the product."
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1833420" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>The update process looks at Spotlight to see what you have installed anywhere. If you let Spotlight index your backup drives, it sees all the stuff in all those backups and calls for them to be updated. So by turning off Spotlight, you basically zeroed out the database, so the updater now thinks you have nothing installed. No more notices of updates, good or bad. What I would suggest is to turn it back on, then go to System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy and drag the backup drive to the window to prevent it being indexed. That should let you get appropriate notices for things that you DO have installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1833420, member: 396914"] The update process looks at Spotlight to see what you have installed anywhere. If you let Spotlight index your backup drives, it sees all the stuff in all those backups and calls for them to be updated. So by turning off Spotlight, you basically zeroed out the database, so the updater now thinks you have nothing installed. No more notices of updates, good or bad. What I would suggest is to turn it back on, then go to System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy and drag the backup drive to the window to prevent it being indexed. That should let you get appropriate notices for things that you DO have installed. [/QUOTE]
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