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I didn't see much point to reinstalling, since it was (presumably) the OS X 10.8.2 Installer that created this in the first place. So I tried the Combo Updater and that didn't help. Thanks for your help.

No, but you did say "Particularly if this was an upgrade on an existing system." I was clarifying what I did. Cleaning up crud was the point of wiping the disk before installing. However, the combined updater might be worth doing. First I have to make a backup of the current configuration...

You gotta be kidding. After spending a couple of days upgrading, updating, and configuring I'm not going to reinstall from scratch unless I really, really have to. Well, thanks for trying. I've reported this to Apple Feedback and hope the next OS update will correct it. In any case it's not...

I'm thinking maybe the simple act of signing out and back in again, whether with the same or a different ID, may have reset whatever was blocking the download.

That did it. I signed back in with the desired ID. Not only that, but: I had a pending update that would not install. After signing into iTunes with the same Apple ID as everything else, this update installed. (Next question: if Software Update could identify the fact that this machine needed...

Correction: I just got an authorization box that's all in English. So some are partly in Catalan and some aren't and I don't know which is when.

Thanks for the URL. It says "
Mac: Enter the same Apple ID in Apple () menu > System Preferences > iCloud and in 
iTunes > iTunes Store." Both of those already say the same thing. It appears that I get the old mac.com ID only when entering via Software Update. I guess I can...

I didn't know that Google Translate will identify the language for you. Yes, I see the first sentence in Catalan and the second in English in all authorization boxes. I hadn't noticed it anywhere except in Update because I've long since stopped looking at much less reading the text in those...

I just installed Mountain Lion and now when I enter the App Store and click "Updates" the authorization pane says, and I quote: "App Store esta intentant comprovar si hi ha programari nou subministrat per Apple. Type an Administrator's name and password to allow this." What the hell?

Over the years I have accumulated multiple Apple IDs. It didn't matter because I almost never used one. I did use iDisk but the ID and password were in the keychain so I never saw them. Now I have updated to 10.8.2 and iCloud and new dependence on the App Store so it looks like I'm going to use...

The library is 18.29 GB. 18.29 GB divided by 10,000 is 18.29 x 10^5 or just under 2 MB average photo size.

I moved my iPhoto library of just over 10,000 pictures to Dropbox for off-site storage and also to make it easy to share it with my wife's computer. When I tried to switch my wife's iPhoto to the library in Dropbox, iPhoto claimed the files had to be updated. This was nonsense since we are both...

(I submitted this question, then realized that I wasn't logged in so I don't know where the question went. If this is a dupe, you can scratch the first one.) This began when iTunes crashed while syncing with an iPod. The crash occurred every time while compressing and transferring photos from...

I have been going through my collection of almost 10,000 photos assigning Places to them. It's hard to believe that iPhoto is so poorly designed as to place a fixed limit to the number of Places in the library, but it appears to be so. If I add a new Place, suddenly many of my photos lose their...

This began when iTunes crashed while syncing with an iPod. The crash occurs every time while compressing and transferring photos from iPhoto to the iPod. When I changed setting to omit photos from the iPod sync, the crash stopped. Since the problem appears to be in iPhoto, I rebuilt the...

Whoa! You've gone way beyond my ability to help. I do have a suggestion, and it is this. Old-fashioned Internet news groups are, in my opinion, much better venues than these Web forums. News groups are organized differently, and you are likely to get more eyes reading your question. To access...

Here are a few suggestions from the news group comp.sys.mac.misc, found in what used to be deja news: Most items stuck in the trash can can be removed by dragging them to the desktop and then putting them back in the trash. You can also use BatChmod, a freeware GUI app that will empty...

I keep three backup drives. One is for Time Machine. It is my routine backup when I want to recover a file or something. The other two drives are for SuperDuper! clones. I alternate these drives, making a backup more or less at the first and the middle of each month. One drive is off site. The...

Never mind. All fixed by unpairing and re-pairing. It turns out that OS X supplies the needed PIN.

Try holding down the Option key while emptying trash.