[tadd]

My wife bought an application for her computer via the App Store and now I want a copy of it on my computer as well. She uses my appleID. The App Store says "INSTALLED" and won't let me buy another copy. For one app the UPDATE button was available. I click it and it says I have to log in as <null> to use the update? I tried to copy the app from her computer to mine and it doesn't run, just quits silently.

How do I get this silly thing to let me buy a copy for a 2nd computer?

Thanks for any help or ideas.
Tadd

[AKcrab]

Open the App store on the second computer.
Sign in.
Click on "Purchases"
Click "Install"

[turtle777]

Which means: you don't have to buy a second copy.

The App Store allows multiple installed copies as long as you are using the same Apple ID.

-t

[tightsocks]

Slightly OT but I figure there is no use in starting another App Store thread...

Are there apps that we can only learn about/DL from the dedicated App Store?
I'd like to just ignore the store altogether unless I will be missing potential software.

Currently I use Macupdate and VT to discover new Mac stuff and to search for titles when a particular need arises.

[Spheric Harlot]

These were a couple of the prominent ones; there's probably already dozens (if not hundreds) of other App Store-exclusives not in the news:

Pixelmator:
Pixelmator goes exclusive to Mac App Store

Transmit:
Panic Blog � Panic on the Mac App Store

TapeDeck:
SuperMegaUltraGroovy � Blog Archive � TapeDeck on the Mac App Store

Any Mac developer would be insane NOT to go through the App Store, but if you're on the App Store, there's no point in offering alternative distribution except to support older OS versions.

Almost all shareware will go App Store-exclusive within a few months (obvious exceptions being tools that violate the App Store regulations). It's just too good a deal for everybody involved (including customers), and there is absolutely no point for a developer who already HAS stuff on the App Store to maintain the complete distribution/payment/legal infrastructure necessary to take care of his own sales, when Apple provides all of that PLUS discoverability and integration into each and every single machine sold. If you double-click a document with an unknown extension in 10.6.6, it will offer to search the App Store for an application capable of opening it. That's heaven for users AND developers.

Read the Panic Blog (makers of Transmit, second link above) for some additional reasoning.

[tadd]

Originally Posted by AKcrab 

Open the App store on the second computer.
Sign in.
Click on "Purchases"
Click "Install"

Alas it doesn't work. I clicked the Purchases button and it shows INSTALLED for one of the applications and it is greyed out. Clicking the greyed out INSTALLED button doesn't do anything. The other application shows "UPDATE". When I click that it says "You have updates available for other accounts" followed by "Sign in to (null) to update applications for that account."

I can attach of video of the operation, or screenshots if you like.

[AKcrab]

Then it sounds to me like you are not actually on the same iTunes account. If it shows "installed" it's already in your Applications folder.

(Or something is completely broken for you.) I've followed the steps I've given on 4 machines with my account and it worked fine every time.