can sombody help with this (lost iMovie/iPhoto after new HD)

cleantone · Post by **cleantone** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:28 am

I know it's off topic. About a month ago I had a HD fail. Got a new one installed and they put the OS (x.3 and 9.2.2) on for me. I just noticed that iMovie and iPhoto were not included.

I do have my install disks for X.2 and 9.2. I assume I can reinstall iMovie and iPhoto from these disks. I am not all that savy and don't want to screw anything up.

First will the iMovie and iPhoto from OSX.2 work in OSX.3? Second, is there a better method? Third anything else I should know?

Whats weird is that when they first fixed my drive they put in a 4200rpm when I asked for a 7200rpm. At that time X.3 had iMovie and iPhoto on it. When I figured out that they screwed up my hd I had to by my own 7200rpm and have them swap drive and refund me in full. Now today I notice that there is no iMovie/iPhoto. Pretty strange.

What should I do?

midiw · Post by **midiw** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:52 am

No doubt that those guys screwed things up for you however that's all water under the bridge.

I have some idea what went wrong in the data transfer but here again that's all academic now.

Since you have the original install disks you are OK to run them and do a "customize" install.

Not meaning to "preach" here but get yourself a FireWire hard drive and create a backup disk image of your main drive.

tgfoyl1472 · Post by **tgfoyl1472** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:23 am

My HD fried as well so I bought a new HD and took advantage of the situation and decided to buy tiger too. My surprise came when indeed I didn't have iPhoto (i don't use iMovie since I don't have a DVD burner) I had iPhoto when I was in Panther, my theory is that since Panther and tiger came so did the iLife software, so now Apple is not including it on the OS software.

I guess I am going to have to spend the $79 to get iPhoto back

cleantone · Post by **cleantone** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:00 pm

Since you have the original install disks you are OK to run them and do a "customize" install.

That was my first thought. When I put the install disk in it tells me to click here to restart the computer for install. I'm scared that if I do it will begin an installation and redo my drive. Does anyone know that it will restart and allow me to choose custum install as an option?

Not meaning to "preach" here but get yourself a FireWire hard drive and create a backup disk image of your main drive.

I do have three that total over 300 GB but there always so full of projects and whatnot. I'll have to get another specifically for this. I lost some session files for older projects that already could have come in handy for making minor revisions on stalled projects. Now I'll either have to not make the revisions or start from scratch. Not fun with full concert length mixes.

zerosin · Post by **zerosin** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:45 pm

Just buy iLife. It's cheap and you won't have to reinstall anything and risk losing data. Back up your HD before running the software restore/install CDs, trust me.

terra · Post by **terra** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:59 am

zerosin wrote:Just buy iLife.

is only $49... and no Problems...

zerosin · Post by **zerosin** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:19 am

terra wrote:
is only $49... and no Problems...

Other than the software itself.