App Store indicates "download" when Lion already purchased and installed

Under "Purchases" in the App Store Lion is indicated as requiring to be downloaded when it should be labelled as installed as it is already installed and "Updates" indicates that "All aps are up to date". Any ideas what is going on and whether this will cause problems moving to Mountain Lion ?

Disclaimer - For me the Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico my first language is Spanish. I do not speak English, however I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture very different from that found in most 1st world nations, such as that in the two dominant North American countries. Written language has no tone. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
I believe that what you are seeing is that the MAS is not detecting the Lion Installer in your apps folder. The installer self-deletes after it has run and installed Lion. The MAS is giving you the opportunity to download it again. It can be ignored.

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I keep getting updates from my app store but yet when I go in and update it starts the process but then a message pops up that says the download cannot be done at this time. I have had to delete a few apps because of this. I have also signed out and signed back into my account and turned my phone on and off and still does the same thing. Help!

Hi tmcrae
First check that your device is not full, maybe you may have to delete some photos or apps to make space to do updates. if its not full then you will have to try pluging it into your pc/mac running itunes then doing a backup and restore. Then you should be able to do your updates.
Sorry but i cant think of any other way if its showing as installed already but is not there.
Hope that helps
Delboy1066

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App Store doesn't know I already purchased, downloaded and installed Mountain Lion

I've have downloaded OS 10.8 Mountain Lion from the App Store on my iMac. It's downloaded and installed, but every time I open the App Store, and look at my purchases it still says I still have to download Mountain Lion. It's a small problem, but rather annoying. It there anyway for the App Store to know Mountain Lion is installed on the iMac?

TomF1701 wrote:
I've have downloaded OS 10.8 Mountain Lion from the App Store on my iMac. It's downloaded and installed, but every time I open the App Store, and look at my purchases it still says I still have to download Mountain Lion. It's a small problem, but rather annoying. It there anyway for the App Store to know Mountain Lion is installed on the iMac?
No it is NOT telling you you HAVE to redownload it. It is giving you the opportunity to Re-Download it.

Hi, I have an iPad Air. I had downloaded pages app which got deleted by mistake. Now when I go back to the App Store it says you have already purchased pages app so now it will be downloaded for free. But it does not download and install the app!!!

Hi, I have an iPad Air. Had downloaded pages app that got deleted by mistake. Now am unable to down load it again. App Store says "you have already purchased this app so it will be downloaded now at no additional charges" but it does not download!!! Pls suggest and help!

Hi Bipashan,
Try downloading this from the past purchases list on your iPad, found here:
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

App store shows "download" when already installed.

Why does the app store show mountain lion ready to "download" when I have already installed mountain lion? Do i need to download and reinstall?

Well, because the App Store is only concerning itself with the Mountain Lion _installer_ (which is an application) and not the OS itself.
The OS will be updated via Software Update, as it always is. Note that in Mountain Lion that Software Updates appear in the App Store application, but this doesn't mean they're actually delivered _via_ the App Store. Software Updates for non-Mac-App-Store applications are delivered as they always were, just with a different front-end UI. It can be confusing ;-)

App Store keeps Crashing when trying to purchase Mountain Lion.

Help! I've tried everything. I am using a Mac OS X 10.6.8. I am trying to buy Mountain Lion off the app store to update my OS so I can purchase Pages but everytime I open the app store and click buy the color wheel starts spinning and the app store won't respond.I have to force quit everytime. I tried to purchase some free apps to see if they would work and I'm getting the exact same problem. I've researched several solutions and have had no luck. I called apple and they said it could be because everyone was updating their iphone so try at non peak hours I did that and still no luck. I don't think thats the problem anyway. Any solutions?

You could also try enabling the debug menu for the App Store, using the terminal command below:
In there it gives you the option to delete cookies and reset the app... This might help you.
Nobody knows for sure what these options do, but it has never caused me any problems. However, be very careful not to click around too much, it may damage your machine.
Quit App Store.app
Open Terminal
Type "defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true" (without the quotations)
Hit ENTER
Relaunch App Store.app
Locate Menu and select the appropriate topic
Close & relaunch App Store.
Fingers crossed it will work for you.

Cannot connect to app store after downloading mountain lion

cannot connect to app store after installing mountain lion it says there is no network connection when there clearly is i am on the internet now and i had this problem with the bootcamp server i read that in another forum and the answer to remove the auto proxy setting was correct but not for this situation because it is allready unchecked i checked it and tried again still no connection please help .... oh and apple you are beginging to be more like windows/microsoft with all the problems

That poor wordpress site has collapsed in exaustion from trying to keep up with the 3mil hits a day
here is a "copied" version with credits for those looking for a solution to an annoying problem Apple should patch. (Yes, I'm aware of the irony of that statement)
July 18, 2012 · by Arthur Lockman · in Apple, Tutorials
After doing a reinstall of Lion a few weeks ago, I found that my computer suddenly would reject every VeriSign certificate that it encountered. Using Chrome, that meant that I couldn’t even access Twitter.com, because it thought that the certificate was wrong. I couldn’t login to the Apple developer portal, I couldn’t authenticate a device with XCode, I couldn’t make a purchase at Apple.com, I couldn’t download updates from the Mac App Store, and I couldn’t login to Mint.com, among other sites. I essentially couldn’t do anything that used a VeriSign certificate for SSL.
What did I do? I called my trusty AppleCare advisor, hoping for an answer. I thought that maybe they could help me figure it out. After getting to senior support, I was told to reinstall Lion, which I did to no avail. My case was then forwarded to the Apple engineering team, with 3 to 5 days to wait until I had an answer. I looked around, through my console logs and through Keychain access, and finally came up with an answer, and a solution to my problems.
It turned out that my solution was pretty simple. I had to delete a few files and reset one to its default setting.
Delete the files /var/db/crls/crlcache.db and /var/db/crls/ocspcache.db. These can be found using Finder’s Go >; Go To Folder menu (Cmd + Shift + G). This resets the cache of accepted certificates in the system. It doesn’t remove them, it just forces the system to rebuild the caches upon restart.
Open Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access). Select Certificates in the Category picker on the left side. In the search bar, type in the word Class. Look through that list, and find any certificates that have a blue + symbol over their icon. These are the ones you need to modify.
Select one that has a blue +, and hit Command + I. Click the disclosure triangle beside the “Trust” list to show the list of permissions. Now, what we need to do is to set this certificate to use the system defaults. However, for some reason, when you select it, it doesn’t save. So what you need to do is this. Under “Trust”, where it says “Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)”, change the dropdown menu to say “No Value Specified”. Then, close the window. It will ask for your administrator permissions. Then, open the info pane for that certificate again. Under “Trust” again, now set the dropdown that says “When using this certificate:” to say “Use System Defaults”. You can then close out of the info pane, and enter your password again. Do this for any of the certificates that have a blue + on their icon. There should only be one or two at most.
Restart your system.
This solution seemed to work just fine for me. All of my certificate problems have been fixed. It must be something with the OSX installer that causes this certificate issue. I’ll file a bug report. Hopefully someone looks into it and fixes the flaw in the OS. And, I hope that this fixed the flaw for you.
Addendum – a note on security:
This procedure won’t affect the security of your Mac. I’ve had some questions come in about that, and if anything, it makes it more secure because then sites that require SSL certificates can actually use them, unlike before where they might default to non secure connections because the certificate was bad.

Having changed computers and now wishing to complete download of material already purchased, and watch material on the new computer, what is the process for verifying the new computer as able to access, download and watch that material?

All I need is advice on how to register a new computer for using old material and material that was only half downloaded.

iTunes Store: Authorize or deauthorize your Mac or PC - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420 - and another helpful post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17828050
iTunes application window (not Finder or a browser) > menus at top > Store menu > drag down to Authorize This Computer. (In earlier versions of iTunes access this option from the Advanced menu). Step-by-step instructions - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16569470
Image of where this is in iTunes 11: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20585561

I re-installed Mountain Lion from a USB stick, and now my Apps can't be downloaded. The App store indicates that the Apps are already installed, but that is not the case. Now what :)

I re-installed Mountain Lion from scratch of a USB stick, and now my Apps in the App store ca not be installed, the App store indicates that they are already installed, but that is not the case. Now what?

Ok, this is somewhat of a better work around I've found:
Starting in the Australian iTunes store, I go through the process of signing into the UK iTunes store up until the point it asks for my credit card information.
I then click the 'X' in the top left of iTunes to exit the store.
Now when I click on my Apps Updates button it shows me what UK Apps I have that are available to update.
You can't download these as at this point I've changed the store I'm viewing, but haven't officially switched accounts. Not to worry.
I write down the names of the UK Apps to update.
Then, use the 'search store' field in the top right of iTunes to search for one of the Apps.
Once you've found it, click to buy it / download it.
iTunes recognises that the App is already in your account and downloads it again for free….
… now I'm HOPING that that App is now fully within my Australian account… unfortunately only time will tell once there is a new update for it.
I'll let you know.

I deleted my iMovie from computer and from my purchases list in AppStroe. When I'm trying to download it again from App Store a pop up window comes up and says: "These apps were already assigned to your Apple ID and are available in your Purchases list"

I deleted my iMovie from computer and from my purchases list in AppStroe. When I'm trying to download it again from App Store a pop up window comes up and says: "These apps were already assigned to your Apple ID and are available in your Purchases list". Please help me to reinstall it.

If new versions of iPhoto and the other iLife applications (iMovie and GarageBand) were purchased by the previous owner from the Mac App Store, then they will be locked to the previous owner's Apple ID and cannot be transferred to you. You will have to re-purchase them under your own Apple ID.
If this is an older MBA that came with Snow Leopard or an earlier version of Mac OS X, though, the system would have come with an installation disk that included the iLife applications, a disk which the seller should have provided to you. Those iLife applications would be older versions, of course, and may or may not work in Lion depending on how old they are.
Regards.

Do i have to re-purchase Mac OS X Lion from the App store to download it to my MacBook as well?

I recently purchased Mac OS X Lion for my iMac from the App Store and was wondering if I have to re-purchase the product to be able to also put it on my MacBook. When I sign into the App Store on my MacBook it says "Install" next to the Mac OS X Lion Title and does not ask me to purchase again.
Need help.

You can install it on as many computers that you personally own. Each computer must have Snow Leopard installed and log into the App Store using the same Apple ID used to purchase Lion. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the App Store toolbar. You will see an active Install button to the right of the original Lion purchase entry.

The App store accepts my Mountain Lion purchase and sends me a receipt, but the download never happens and is "waiting"...

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Hi Why not just buy an iTunes card until your problem is sorted In uk they are £15.00 / £25.00/£50.00 Just enter readeem code into iTunes. Cheers Brian

Why does the App store say 'download' to OSX Mavericks when i have already downloaded the update, and restarted the computer? I can't find Mavericks icon on the dashboard or launchpad either! Help!

Why does the App store say 'download' to OSX Mavericks when i have already downloaded the update, and restarted the computer?
I can't find Mavericks icon on the dashboard or launchpad either! Help!

It sounds like you've installed Mavericks. You can confirm this by clicking on the Apple located at the top left of the screen and choosing "About This Mac" from the menu. You should see a window appear with the text "Version 10.9.1" near the middle.
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App Store indicates "download" when Lion already purchased and installed

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