App Store Update Notifications When Apps Are Current Versions

I have had this problem since I began using Mountain Lion in December 2012. It only occurs on my Mac Mini that is always connected to external drives that have bootable volumes created using SuperDuper! (Our 2011 13" MBP does not do this when its external drive is not connected.) The problem goes away when the Mac Mini external drives aren't connected. I have used SuperDuper! since it was introduced and I have never had a serious problem with it until 10.8.
I contacted SuperDuper! tech support and Dave told me that it is a problem with 10.8 and not SuperDuper!. When I contacted Apple tech support I was informed that Time Machine is the only Apple-supported backup solution so Apple is not interested in the problem... The support technician suggested some ways to fix it: delete and reinstall the apps; update the apps even if I have the current version, etc. I also made sure that the SuperDuper! backup was current so the apps on the external drives were current versions. When none of it fixed the problem Apple passed on dealing with it...
Since my contact with Apple I have just lived with the problem. But it is quite annoying to see a daily app update alert that I must manually scan each listing to find an app that needs to be updated.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I had previously excluded the two clones of the Mac Mini that reside on the external drives. But I did neglect to exclude a clone of my old iMac and my wife's MacBook Pro, which I copy to an external partition so it is included with my Crashplan backup.
I also have a Time Machine backup; when I exclude it, Spotlight informs me that it will continue to search Time Machine backups but it will not search other items on the disk. Since there are no other items on that partition I'm not going to exclude the Time Machine partition.
Now that I have excluded two more partitions, is it necessary to reindex every partition?
I will also check for older versions of the apps.

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in India 3G or Broadband will cost Rs 1600 or more for minimum 2Mbps speed also with limited Data.we get unlimited data in same cost,but speed is less then 512 Kbps only.it was boring speed.
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Hello all.
First time poster and first time apple product owner. I just bought an iPad (3rd Gen) last week. I'm hooked and absolutely love it. I am having an issue with two apps in regards to their update notifications in the app store. The twitter app and hbogo app currently show that an update is available. When I click update or update all, I am prompted to enter my password and after doing so i receive the Could Not Connect to iTunes Store message. This is only happening for these two apps. Moments ago I had 6 update notifications and when hitting update all the four other apps updated and two notifications remain for twitter and hbogo. I checked these forums already and was unable to find anything on the issue. Any insight into this problem would be appreciated. My thanks in advance.
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Don't think I really needed your reminder in hindsight did I? You can't help.. don't bother posting. That simple. What exactly an Apple guarantee is supposed to do for me is anyone's business with a simple problem of an app (program)_ needing to simply be reinstalled and me already having reiterated that I haven't done a Time Machine backup.. when people go to the trouble of being honest, they do not need unhelpful comments like yours.
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