Why does Apple ask me to use "other account"?
When I try to download updates, get message that I "have updates available for other accounts. To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it." WHAT are they talking about? I've only ever had one account, though several Apple computers. Never encountered this before putting iOS 7 on iPad...... Now I can't update anything, and no longer have either App Store, or iTunes on iPad. Have Lion on 2008 MacBook Pro, and on Mac Mini. Have tried all the restart/ resets. Totally stuck.
It's not clear if your problem is with the iPad or one or both of your Macs. If it's the Macs, that response will sometimes occur if Spotlight is not indexing your boot disk or the index is corrupted. If it isn't already in there, include your boot drive in the Privacy panel of Spotlight Preferences, close Preferences, open it again, and delete your boot drive from the Privacy list. That forces reindexing. Be aware that that will take some time to complete and may still not solve your problem.
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