So far, my recovery from this little mishap with my MacBook Pro is going well. Today I noticed I was without iWeb, iDVD, and iMovie HD. Now, Apple doesn’t officially support any of these apps anymore, but they matter to me for the following reasons:
- iWeb: It was a very handy web site editor that works quite well. I used it to create my corporate website.
- iDVD: It was great for creating DVDs from iMovie projects or iPhoto projects. It’s no longer included with new Macs as Apple feels that nobody makes DVDs anymore. They of course are wrong about that.
- iMovie HD: As I’ve documented previously, the current versions of iMovie don’t play nice with DV camcorders. Plus as a video editing app, the latest versions of iMovie quite frankly suck. Therefore I am going to hang onto iMovie HD until it stops working on my Mac or Apple gets a clue about how video editing software should works.
So the question is what to do about these missing items. Now I could have gone to my trusty backup to get them. But given this is a fresh install of OS X Mavericks, I wanted to make sure I didn’t transfer over any issues, so I did this:
- iWeb: I first had to download the last version of iWeb from Apple’s site. If you need it you can find it here. Then I had to copy from my backup the “Sites” folder which contains all the info for my website. Then I had to do some slight of hand to make it work. iWeb stores your data in a domain file located in the following location: Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb.
I had to go to this location, copy this file and paste it to the same location on my computer. Hint to Apple: You should put every file that relates to a users data in a place where it can be easily found. This does not qualify as being easy to find.
- iDVD: This one was easy. I simply had to download the last version of iDVD from Apple’s site which if you need it can be found here. I had no data that I had to rescue so I just had to install it and make sure it worked.
- iMovie HD: This was the hardest one as Apple doesn’t have this on their site anymore. So I went a route that I absolutely, positively do not recommend to anyone but yours truly. I went to this blog who is likely hosting a copy of iMovie HD illegally and downloaded it. He had some instructions in terms of installing it which I followed and so far it seems to be fine.
I’ll keep using it and I think I’ll find little things that I need to address, but it seems to be all good so far.
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The Recovery Continues…..
So far, my recovery from this little mishap with my MacBook Pro is going well. Today I noticed I was without iWeb, iDVD, and iMovie HD. Now, Apple doesn’t officially support any of these apps anymore, but they matter to me for the following reasons:
So the question is what to do about these missing items. Now I could have gone to my trusty backup to get them. But given this is a fresh install of OS X Mavericks, I wanted to make sure I didn’t transfer over any issues, so I did this:
I had to go to this location, copy this file and paste it to the same location on my computer. Hint to Apple: You should put every file that relates to a users data in a place where it can be easily found. This does not qualify as being easy to find.
I’ll keep using it and I think I’ll find little things that I need to address, but it seems to be all good so far.
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