Logged in to my
Mac App Store account today, the
"Purchases" tab greeted me with an update for
Xcode. However,
clicking on it only resulted in the following:
You have updates available for other accounts.
Sign into the account you used to purchase it.
Huh? I don't have any other accounts. One Apple account is more than enough :-\
So, what's the deal here? (Un)fortunately,
others had similar
issues and a
possible solution as well:
- Delete or move
/Applications/Install Xcode.app resp. Install XCode.dmg, usually found in /Applications as well. Then try again to update Xcode.
- Refresh your Spotlight index. I.e. add/remove your system disk to the index, then try again to update:
$ launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
$ mdutil -a -i on && mdutil -a -E
Now the AppStore should work again. Disable once the updates are completed:
$ mdutil -a -i off
$ launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Update: Since I have disabled
Spotlight, refeshing the index would not work. Upon adding/removing items from the list of excluded directories, this happens:
Privacy List Error
The item couldn't be added or removed because you don't
have the appropriate permissions.
So we have to enable Spotlight again:
$ launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
$ launchctl list | grep -i metadata
5035 - com.apple.metadata.mds
- 0 com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump
- 0 com.apple.metadata.mds.scan
Now refreshing Spotlight's index should work and
AppStore will be able to install software again. We might choose to disable Spotlight again:
$ launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
