Danby

Thanks for clarifying what can and can't be done. I've made a mental note to buy directly in the future, whenever possible. I like to avoid frustrations and headaches whenever I can! As an update to my query, for reasons I do not understand I'm now getting a different response from the App store. Photo and Designer are still not showing under my updates tab, but under the purchased tab or if I search out and bring up these particular apps they now show "install" buttons rather than "update", and pressing the button actually works now. I've no idea why this worked today when it didn't work yesterday, but at least I was able to download the updates.

I'm also having problems upgrading to the 1.8.1 versions on the Mac App store. I have version 1.7.2 of Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer, and I'm on a 2012 macbook pro running 10.12.6. If I go to the updates tab, the App store doesn't list either of these apps as having new versions that can be updated. Things are supposed to show up there within 72 hours - it's been a week and a half. If I go to the purchases tab, the App store recognizes that I purchased Photo and Designer, but instead of offering to let me update them it only asks if I want to open my current versions. If I go to the Top Charts tab and find these apps, the App store lists the Apps AND gives me a button to press to Update to the latest version, but when I press that button I just get a wheel that spins forever, and no download. The same thing happens when I do this for Affinity Photo or Designer. I'd like to download these if it's possible. Or if there's a way to transition these purchases out of the AppStore, so that I can download these directly from Affinity from now on, that would be ideal! I had no troubles at all in upgrading Affinity Publisher, which I had fortunately bought directly.