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    iLife suite on fresh install

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Bill Nye, Mar 27, 2012.

  1. Bill Nye

    Bill Nye Know Nothing

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    I bought my MBP in late July. It came with iLife back then.

    I just did a fresh reformatting this past weekend. When I went to the AppStore to "redeems" my copies of iMovie, iPhoto, and Garageband, I was met with an "accept" option. Naturally, upon clicking it, it said that I was not allowed to accept these apps onto this computer.

    I'm not familiar with software now that everything's gone cloud. Am I entitled to these services? My understanding is that all computers with a factory copy of Lion (which mine technically has, despite my owning the Snow Leopard CD and a cloud copy of Lion) includes the iLife suite.

    I'm a bit confused as to why this seems like a one time deal.
     
    Bill Nye, Mar 27, 2012
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  2. bogatyr

    bogatyr Notebook Evangelist

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    As far as I know, they're just for laptops that shipped with Lion on them:
    OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery

    I also read someone who did this same thing but couldn't download iLife without reusing the same iTunes account. Are you using the same account?
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3611570?start=0&tstart=0
     
    bogatyr, Mar 28, 2012
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  3. LinkRS

    LinkRS Notebook Consultant

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    Howdy Bill Nye (The Science Guy :D ),

    IF your MBP came with Lion pre-installed, you will be able to download and re-install iLife from the App Store. However if you upgraded to Lion (as I did), you will NOT be able to get iLife from the App Store. In that case, you must use the DVD that your MBP shipped with. You should be able to insert the Applications DVD (DVD 2) into your DVD drive, and install iLife from there. I believe that it is an option called "Install Bundled Software." That will restore the base versions, and then you can use Software Update to get the latets patches. The section at the Apple support site on this is: Macintosh Restore DVD: How to install iMovie, iPhoto, or iTunes using Mac OS X Software Install Good luck!

    Rich S.
     
    LinkRS, Mar 28, 2012
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