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October 4, 2006

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Wipe out unwanted updates

Posted Oct. 4, ’06, 9:49 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Tips

Hide UpdatesWe had a bunch of updates last week, from 10.4.8 to pretty much the entire iLife suite. But, let’s say you don’t have one of the apps mentioned: Pages, perhaps, or Keynote. Even though you may not have them installed, the updates will still show up every time you launch Software Update. Annoying, right?

Fortunately, there’s a pretty easy way to solve that problem. Just select the update (or updates) you don’t want to show up any more (iSight updates on computers without an external iSight are my personal bane) and select “Ignore Update” from the Update menu. If you’re a keyboard shortcut kind of guy/gal, you can hit delete (in Tiger) or command-delete (in Panther).

Should you, at some point in the indefinite future, need to apply an update that you’ve hidden, just go to the Software Update menu and choose “Reset Ignored Updates.” You’ll now see all the updates; you can just re-hide any of the ones you don’t want.

Update: Whoops, we mentioned this many a month ago. Sorry for the dupe.


2 Comments

Moe said:

Actually, I've not noticed any unwanted updates showing up for my MacBookPro. I picked and chose the iLife apps I wanted on my machine (I have iTunes and iWeb but not GarageBand or iMovie), and I only received notification for the ones I had installed. Is this something peculiar to the Intel Macs? I'd think it would be a simple software issue...

October 4, 2006 10:19 AM
Michael Long said:

One annoying thing about updates is that I've "organized" my Application folder, putting the iLife apps into a folder called iLife, iWork into iWork, others into graphics, games, etc..

However, the Software Updater won't see the iLife apps and tell you about updates for them unless they're back in the root Application folder.

So every once in a while I move them out so they can be "seen" to check for updates, then move them back.

A pain.

October 4, 2006 1:24 PM

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