Stop app store flagging updates for another user, stop app store flagging updates for another user

I have an old Macbook Air I have given to my wife. I ha ve created a new user for her, etc, and all looks fine - but App Store still flags up updates for apps I have installed separately - even though I believe Ihave de-authorised the computer for my account.
Any idea why, or how to stop it please?
MIke M

Is there any way I can completely remove my Apple ID from that machine and make it hers?
Yes, delete all content that is associated with your Apple ID's Mac App Store and iTunes Store account; apps, music, videos, etc. You will also need to contact the iTunes/Mac App Store Account Security Team, as suggested by Hackintosh, to have the Mac, it's installed version of OS X and the preinstalled iLife suite disassociated with your Apple ID.
I had never heard the term iLife Apps before.
iLife was a suite of apps that Apple originallyt sold on DVD. Some years ago Apple started giving this suite of apps away for free with the purchase of a new Mac, they came preinstalled on the new Mac. With the advent of the Mac App Store, Apple has moved all of its apps to MAS distribution and no longer sells software on disks, including the iLife apps. There are only three iLife apps now and they can be bought individually from the MAS, but they still come preinstalled on a new Mac for free; iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. They are associated with the Apple ID of whomever originally sets up a new Mac along with the installed version of OS X.

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If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data, then reinstall the OS.* You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need the backup unless something goes wrong. If the system was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you may need the Apple ID and password you used.
If you use FileVault 2, then before running the Installer you must launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the FileVault startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another icon with the same name. Click the Unlock button in the toolbar and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main Recovery screen.
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If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode. All other data will be preserved.
*The linked support article refers to OS X 10.9 ("Mavericks"), but the procedure is the same for OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later.

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When I go to update my software using the app store download, it always asks for the previous user's ID, not mine (my IT guy at school's-I am a faculty with admin priviledges). I have signed in as me, have set the main preferences login user as me,and everywhere on the laptop I can use my apple ID except here. It always shows me a greyed out ID of my IT. How can I reset this to my ID? It doesn't give me an option to change the user ID, only a link to reset password. I reset it, but it did not change the problem. Can someone help me?

It's not an ID problem, it's an ownership problem.
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Update available for another user's apps

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You are seeing her app updates and she will see your app updates because App Store searches all the hard disk to find App Store apps.
Also, applications are installed by default on a common folder for both users (/Applications), so you can try to move the App Store applications to ~/Applications (being ~ your user folder). Doing this, the other user shouldn't be able to see app updates for your Apple ID as you can't access to one user folder from a different one

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Thanks for you reply. I'm 99% positive that I'm using the user id and password that I used to set up my computer. That's why I'm stumped. I read the solution someone else suggested (type your user name without @gmail and create a new password. When I tried it, I was asked for my birthday. It didn't recognize it. I know I got my birthday correct. Oh well...
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1. Tap "Settings"
2. Tap "iTunes & App Stores"
3. Tap on your Apple ID
4.Tap "View Apple ID"
5. Enter your user name and password.
6. Tap "Country/Region."
7. Tap "Change Country/Region"
8. Select the country/region where you are located.
9. Tap "Done".
Note: If the change doesn't take effect, sign out of account and sign in again.

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You don't need two separate libraries to manage two devices.
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Purplehiddledog wrote:
I do backup with iCloud. I can't wait until the new iMac is available so that I can once again have my files in more than 1 location without needing to rely solely on the cloud.
I also rely on iTunes and my MacBook and Time Machine as well as backing up to iCloud. I know many users know have gone totally PC free, but I chose to use iCloud merely as my third backup.
I assume that the restore would result in my ability to open Pages and Numbers and fix the problem with deleting apps, but this would also mean that if my Numbers documents still exist solely within the app and are just not on iCloud for some reason that they would be gone forever. Is that right?
In a word, yes. In a little more detail.... When you restore from an iCloud backup, you must erase the device and start all over again. There is no other way to access the backup in iCloud without erasing the device. Consequently, you are starting all over again. Therefore, it would also be my assumption that Pages and Numbers will work again and that the deleting apps issues would be fixed as well.
If the documents are not in the backup, and you do not have a backup elsewhere, the documents could be gone forever.

Stop app store flagging updates for another user, stop app store flagging updates for another user

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