App Store want me to update a game that I have never installed

App Store is telling me to update a game (Fantastic 4 in a row.....) that I have ever never bought and/or installed. How do I get rid of this notification?

No - but my fault. I was logged in at App Store with another appleid.

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Hi...
I replied to you here > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3851006?tstart=0

Mac App Store keep request for update an application that I already uninstall from my MBP?

I updated my mbp to 10.6.6 which come with mac app store. I was so happy to get myself some apps there. eg: DropCopy (free) and some games of course. After given some try, i decided to uninstall DropCopy from my mbp, and also the related .plist files. Few weeks later, when DropCopy come with an update, i found that there are an update notification from mac app store. I've tried to update then uninstalled it again, the update notification still there! I've write an e-mail to the developer, they replied that's a bug come from mac app store and they can't do anything to solve that. So i decide to wait for an update from Apple. When it come with an update to 10.6.7, I get my mbp updated for sure. However, the problem still there! The mac app store still appear an update of DropCopy even I've already uninstall it from my mbp. How can i solve it or remove the update notification?

iTunes is currently having problems in reference to the apps. If you have icloud, then toggle contacts off/on. If not then restore from itune backup

I come to update my apps and found there was an update there that i have never installed. any help??

i came to update my apps on my mac using the mac app store, when i clicked updates, there were 2 that have downloaded in the past and one other random one. i clicked it and it was somebody elses email address and t was an app that i have never even seen before, any ideas as to how this has happened?
please bear in mind, i am and have been, the only person to use this mac! NO ONE else touches it haha
thanks

Hi John..
Looks like you have a pirated app installed.
This may help > NGPixel » Mac App Store – “You have updates available for other accounts” bug
Please report the issue to Apple here.

HT5648 The App store wants me to update to Java 1.6.0_41 -- but I already have the latest Java 1.7 ver. downloaded from Oracle.

How do I remove the Java 1.6.0_41 update from App Store updates list without actually installing it? I don't want to revert to an older Java than what I got from Oracle just a week ago (Java "1.7.0_11").
PS, I thought Apple was no longer doing its own Java version anymore and that maintenance for Java for Mac was now in Oracle's hands. What gives?

dominique99 wrote:
How do I remove the Java 1.6.0_41 update from App Store updates list without actually installing it? I don't want to revert to an older Java than what I got from Oracle just a week ago (Java "1.7.0_11").
You should not ignore it as that will leave you with an unsafe version of Java SE 6 integrated into your system. If you shoud ever need to revert from Java 7 to Java 6 (which many users have found necessary for compatibility reasons) that would leave you open to attack. It's very difficult to remove Java 6 so you might as well keep it up-to-date.
I thought Apple was no longer doing its own Java version anymore and that maintenance for Java for Mac was now in Oracle's hands. What gives?
The agreement was that Apple would continue to update Java 6 and Oracle would take over at Java 7. Both can exist on your computer, though in general, only one will be active at any given time. Oracle's public support for Java 6 ends this month and without it Apple will be hard pressed to continue after that date, but we'll all just have to wait and see how that goes.

Unwanted App which the app store wants me to update, and I cannot delete it.

I have an App wanting to be updated that I cannot update or remove because it was not downloaded on my account. It has been there for over a year and it does not show up anywhere on my computer. Why is it in my app store if it is not on my account? Spotlight does not find it in the search.

You installed a hacked app, originally from the Mac App Store. It contains the receipt for a different app, downloaded using an account that you don't control. You need to identify and remove the hacked app.
Important: The app you need to remove is not necessarily the one named in the App Store alert. For example, the App Store may prompt you to update "Angry Birds" or "Twitter," but the hacked app may be something else entirely. Don't make any assumptions about which app you're looking for. To find it, you must carry out a systematic search with Spotlight.
1. Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
kMDItemAppStoreHasReceipt=1
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
2. In the Finder, press command-F to open a search window, or select
File ▹ Find
from the menu bar. In the search window, select
Search: This Mac
from the row of tokens below the toolbar. Below that is a popup menu of search criteria, initially showing Kind. From that menu, select
Other...
A sheet will drop down. In that sheet, select
Raw Query
as the criterion, then click OK or press return.
Now there will be a text box to the right of the menu of search criteria. That's where you enter the raw search query. Click in that box and paste the text you copied earlier by pressing command-V.
4. The search window will now show all the App Store products that are installed. Compare those search results with the list of your purchases from the App Store. To see the complete list, you may need to unhide hidden purchases. If any apps were download from the App Store using other Apple ID accounts that you control, sign in to the store under each of those ID's and check the purchases.
At least one of the apps in the Spotlight search results is not among your purchases in the App Store. Move each such item to the Trash, after quitting it if it's running. You may be prompted for your administrator password. Empty the Trash.
Quit and relaunch the App Store. Test.
If you find these instructions confusing, ask for an alternative method.

App store wants me to update apps already updated!!

what is with Apple's App Store??? I am using Mac OS X 10.6.8, the app store says I need to update apps that were updated months ago, ***??? ...once in a while I have a similar problem with iTunes app updates also, it will download apps but then it claims there's one that still needs to be downloaded, I keep doing this until I realize it's the same app and it's already downloaded.

let me rephrase that...the app store indicated I needed to update several apps to the version they have already been updated to.
problem is gone, hours later I go to app store and it is operating normally.
anyone know why this happens?

Why is my updates tab showing an update for a game that i have never bought?

also, why does it show a random apple id that surely isn't mine?
added a screenshot, maybe that can help.

I have this same issue. Nobody else has been on this computer. I tried the following link and am waiting for spotlight to re-index everything.
http://www.ngpixel.com/2011/06/25/mac-app-store-you-have-updates-available-for-t he-other-accounts-bug/
Whats interesting is why [email protected]'s username? I am speculating it is some sort of virus, possibly from some other app I may have downloaded directly from some developers website ...
Anyone else experince this and have a better understanding of whats going on?

HT204053 how come there is another apple id appears when im about to update the applications that i have downloaded?

how come there is another apple id appears when im about to update the applications that i have downloaded?

When a stranger's Apple ID appears on your Mac in conjunction with an update for an app that you have never installed, you have a pirated app on your Mac. The pirated app is not the app calling for the update. This pirated app has been cracked with the MAS receipt from usually a free app, often Angry Birds or Twitter, acquired by the person whose Apple ID you see.
You may not have realized that it was a pirated app when you installed it. You may have believed that it was a trail version or a "free" version.
All MAS apps have a MAS receipt in their app bundle. Check any app acquired from the MAS. Right click on the app's icon in your Apps folder and choose Show package contents. In the Contents folder is a _MASReceipt folder and in that folder is the coded MAS receipt. It has the Apple ID of the MAS account that bought/acquired the app from the MAS. It is that receipt that the MAS uses to alert you that an app has an update. There would not be a notice of an update with someone else's Apple ID showing in the MAS on your Mac, if there was not an app with a receipt from this person's account somewhere on your Mac.
Download the free app FindAnyFile (FAF);
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
This app is easier to use and seems to be more powerful than Spotlight. Open FAF and in the box type _MASReceipt and press Find. It should come up with a list of every app on the Mac with a MAS receipt. Compare the apps with receipts in FAF's list with your purchased apps list in the Mac App Store. The odd app out should be the pirated app.

I have registered on my PC two devices iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 4 now I am using only the iPhone 5. I have two different apple ID`s and yesterday I have FB update and from app store wanted to sign in with the ID form iPod Touch 4 how to fix it?

I have registered on my PC two devices iPhone 5 and iPod Touch 4 now I am using only the iPhone 5. I have two different apple ID`s and yesterday I have FB update and from app store wanted to sign in with the ID form iPod Touch 4 how to fix it? I want to use my current Apple ID not the old one. Regards!

Try this
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495
Hope it helps.

Having updated iWork 6.1, 5.1, 3.1 two times yet app store wants to download again.

Having updated iWork 6.1, 5.1, 3.1 two times yet app store wants to download again.

Software Update
If you have Keynote 6.1 installed and working; ignore the update message, there is no need to download it again it just a minor bug in the update system.
not opening Keynote files
Most problems are caused by trying to open version 6 files in the version 5 application.
Right click on the Keynote file select open with and choose Keynote 6.

Ipad app store no longer shows updates

ipad app store no longer shows updates. was working fine until a couple days ago - whwt can I do?

If you are getting the blank app update screen, many people are having this problem over the last couple of days.
According to Fly150 in another discussion, this will work.
If you want to update the Apps while waiting for Apple to fix Updates:
1. Go to App Store
2. Select Purchased
3. Select All
4. Scroll down to find the Apps showing update
5. Select update on the Apps
This should update the Apps and get rid of the update count in App Store. Apple needs to fix this. It is a workaround only until then.

So i was on the mac app store going to get a free game and it said i had to review my account do i have to pay to do that?

So i was on the mac app store going to get a free game and it said i had to review my account do i have to pay to do that?

No. They just want you to review your payment information.
You can select None for payment method if it's available > Mac App Store: Changing your account information
Why can’t I select None when I edit my payment information?

On OSX10.8, friend logged in using his appleID now the app store is trying to update apps I don't have.

On OSX10.8, friend logged in using his appleID now the app store is trying to update apps I don't have. How can I clean this up? I don't see the usual ignore update like I did back on older versions of the OS. I don't really want to just ignore it I want to clean it all up. How can I make sure there is nothing under his name or ID on my new laptop?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. 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.
The MAS doesn't usually offer updates for apps not present or not in your purchased list. Are you sure that the apps are not to be found on a mounted drive or partition, such as a backup?

How do I remove an old username from the app store when using the update function

How do I remove an old username from the app store when using the update function.
I purchased my Mac used. The former owners username prepopulates when I try to perform the updated function on the app store. It does not allow me to use a different user name. I have created my own username and password. I have even been able to purchase items from the app store, it's just when I use the update function it does populate with my username. Any help is appreciated.

The first thing to do with a second-hand computer is to erase the internal drive and install a clean copy of OS X. You — not the previous owner — must do that. How you do it depends on the model, and on whether you already own another Mac. If you're not sure of the model, enter the serial number on this page. Then find the model on this page to see what OS version was originally installed.
1. You don't own another Mac.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.4 or 10.5, you need a boxed and shrink-wrapped retail Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) installation disc from the Apple Store or a reputable reseller — not from eBay or anything of the kind. If the machine has less than 1 GB of memory, you'll need to add more in order to install 10.6. Preferably, install as much memory as it can take, according to the technical specifications.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.6, you need the installation media that came with it: gray installation discs, or a USB flash drive for some MacBook Air models. For early MBA models, you may need a USB optical drive or Remote Disc. You should have received the media from the previous owner, but if you didn't, order replacements from Apple. A retail disc, or the gray discs from another model, will not work.
To boot from an optical disc or a flash drive, insert it, then reboot and hold down the C key at the startup chime. Release the key when you see the gray Apple logo on the screen.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.7 or later, you don't need media. It should boot into Internet Recovery mode when you hold down the key combination option-command-R at the startup chime. Release the keys when you see a spinning globe.
2. You do own another Mac.
If you already own another Mac that was upgraded in the App Store to the version of OS X that you want to install, and if the new Mac is compatible with it, then you can install it. Use Recovery Disk Assistant to create a bootable USB device and boot the new Mac from it by holding down the C key at the startup chime. Alternatively, if you have a Time Machine backup of OS X 10.7.3 or later on an external hard drive (not a Time Capsule or other network device), you can boot from that by holding down the option key and selecting it from the row of icons that appears. Note that if your other Mac was never upgraded in the App Store, you can't use this method.
Once booted in Recovery, launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the internal drive — not any of the volume icons nested beneath it. In the Partition tab, select the default options: a GUID partition table with one data volume in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. This operation will permanently remove all existing data on the drive.
After partitioning, quit Disk Utility and run the OS X Installer. You will need the Apple ID and password that you used to upgrade. When the installation is done, the system will automatically reboot into the Setup Assistant, which will prompt you to transfer the data from another Mac, its backups, or from a Windows computer. If you have any data to transfer, this is usually the best time to do it.
Then run Software Update and install all available system updates from Apple. To upgrade to a major version of OS X newer than 10.6, get it from the Mac App Store. Note that you can't keep an upgraded version that was installed by the previous owner. He or she can't legally transfer it to you, and without the Apple ID you won't be able to update it in Software Update or reinstall, if that becomes necessary. The same goes for any App Store products that the previous owner installed — you have to repurchase them.
If the previous owner "accepted" the bundled iLife applications (iPhoto, iMovie, and Garage Band) in the App Store so that he or she could update them, then they're linked to that Apple ID and you won't be able to download them without buying them. Reportedly, Apple customer service has sometimes issued redemption codes for these apps to second owners who asked.
If the previous owner didn't deauthorize the computer in the iTunes Store under his Apple ID, you wont be able to authorize it immediately under your ID. In that case, you'll either have to wait up to 90 days or contact iTunes Support.

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