One way to isolate Apple's, 3rd Party and MAS updates is to sort by the Source column. With the introduction of the Mac App Store, those apps that were purchased there as well as 3rd party updates will also appear in this list. Clicking on the Install Date column is a good idea and will show a time-ordered history of all applied updates.Ĭlose-up of the Update list, sorted by Install Date. Note that you can can resize the columns for easier reading by clicking and dragging the separator at the top, between columns, as well as sort each column by clicking on the column name. Beyond the general improvements and new features available, it’s also just good practice to keep your Mac software up to date, both for individual apps and for the core OS. Double-click/launch the app called System Information.app. Because OS X Mountain Lion is stable and pretty decent, there is much less urgency with upgrading to Mavericks, but you probably should anyway. Applications -> Utilities Folder -> System Information.appĢ. Navigate to your Utilities folder found in the Applications folder. In the sidebar, under Software, select Installations.Ĭlose-up of the Software Installations entry in sidebarġ. Click the disclosure triangle if necessary to reveal the Software list. Scroll to the Software section in the left sidebar. In the next window, select System Report.Ĥ. Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a discit’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t. Under the Apple Menu, select About this Mac.ģ. The problem, however, is that there is no convenient place, as before, to show a list of applied updates. So, starting in OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, Apple put the system updates in the Mac App Store, at the top. However, apparently Apple felt that having two places to update software, one for Mac App Store apps and one for the system was confusing for new customers. We all got used to that method it was second nature. In, for example, OS X 10.7 Lion and previous versions, if you wanted to see the OS and Apple app updates that had been applied, you'd go to System Preferences -> Software Update and select the Installed Updates tab. This how-to shows you how to see those plus all other app updates once again. That all changed in Mountain Lion which uses the Mac App Store (MAS) to apply system updates. In previous versions of OS X, before Mountain Lion, one could use the System Preference called Software Update to both update the OS (and Apple's own apps) and also view a list of system updates that have been applied.
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