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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1562088"><p>I had them when I had backups on external drives that I kept connected. Spotlight had indexed the drives, so it knew about the older versions there. When App Store looks for what needs updating, it looks into the Spotlight database and sees the older versions, so it prompts for the update, over and over, because the older files don't get updated and Spotlight never sees the backups change. There are a couple of things you can do: 1. Open System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy and drag the backup drives to the window and drop them. Spotlight will stop inventorying the backup drives. 2. Delete the backup versions of the software from the backup drives. Spotlight will update, App Store will leave you alone.</p><p></p><p>The downside of #1 are that searching now excludes your backup disks, which is OK with me and is what I did. The downside of #2 is the older versions are no longer available if you should ever need them. I'm not as comfortable with that setup, so I didn't do that. But it's up to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1562088"] I had them when I had backups on external drives that I kept connected. Spotlight had indexed the drives, so it knew about the older versions there. When App Store looks for what needs updating, it looks into the Spotlight database and sees the older versions, so it prompts for the update, over and over, because the older files don't get updated and Spotlight never sees the backups change. There are a couple of things you can do: 1. Open System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy and drag the backup drives to the window and drop them. Spotlight will stop inventorying the backup drives. 2. Delete the backup versions of the software from the backup drives. Spotlight will update, App Store will leave you alone. The downside of #1 are that searching now excludes your backup disks, which is OK with me and is what I did. The downside of #2 is the older versions are no longer available if you should ever need them. I'm not as comfortable with that setup, so I didn't do that. But it's up to you. [/QUOTE]
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