App Store: application updates going to former drive

Hi,
I installed 10.8.1 on my drive 2, while I had 10.7.4 installed on my drive 1.
My mac is now booting by default (startup drive) on drive 2.
But when I get application update notification in the App Store, and updates my apps, they get updated on drive 1.
Any explanation/workaround for this?
Yann

App Store uses Spotlight to find installed applications. If your old drive is mounted and visible, then App Store may happen to pick that drive to update.
Two solutions occur to me:
(a) Disable Spotlight for the old drive. This will prevent searching for files on that drive (unless you use third party tools like EasyFind).
To do this, while booted from your Mountain Lion drive, go into System Preferences > Spotlight, click on the Privacy tab, then click the + button, select the old drive in the sidebar and click the Choose button (or you can drag the drive icon into the Privacy window).
(b) Unmount the old drive before running App Store to check for updates.
You can use Disk Utility to mount and unmount drives. If you have the drive icons on the desktop, you can also drag the icon for the old drive to Trash to unmount it (you can use Disk Utility to mount it again).
The catch with this method is that App Store is likely to be notifying you of pending updates for apps it can see at times you do have the old drive mounted, so it may end up with a permanent red badge showing that you have updates available.

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