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Lost Application

Hey Guys,

a few minutes ago i was cleaning up my dock, i pulled garageband off and then noticed i still needed it there, so i went into my applications folder to try and find it, but it's not there?

ive used spotlight search and looked in a fair few folders - including the recycling bin, and cannot find it. Ive also tried opening some of the files ive made with it and they open in quicktime and says the document cannot be opened.

Please dont say reinstall iLife 09, i bought it from a guy on ebay with it preinstalled; but he never sent the disks.

Thanks in advance.
Alex

iMac Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2), The White One

Posted on Jan 31, 2010 2:37 PM

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Jan 31, 2010 2:42 PM in response to Alexander Horne

Alex,

Welcome to Apple Discussions.

That's a pretty simple fix, just use Time Machine and restore it.

BTW you should NEVER purchase a Mac from someone that cannot supply the discs that it came with and/or any software that comes bundled with the purchase. If you don't have these or a Time Machine backup I think you are out of luck.

Regards,

Roger

Jan 31, 2010 2:46 PM in response to Alexander Horne

So you have not been backing up the machine? About the only other thing you can do is see if it's residing somewhere else, normally dragging something off the Dock will not delete it. You can still see if you have the application by using Spotlight.

Command, Spacebar and type Garage Band, if you see the application you still have it, it's just not in the Applications folder.

Jan 31, 2010 3:01 PM in response to Alexander Horne

Nope you've lost it!

Two valuable lessons here:

1. NEVER buy a used Mac without the original discs

2. Use Time Machine



One thing you might try is tomorrow call Apple and see if they will send you a replacement set of iLife discs. If they will you will have to pay a nominal fee. It's worth a try, you can find the phone number in the manual which I'm guessing you don't have, you can locate that here.
Sorry Alexander.

Jan 31, 2010 2:57 PM in response to Casper Elmose

Last login: Sun Jan 31 21:26:56 on console
Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$ locate GarageBand.app

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Please be aware that the database can take some time to generate; once
the database has been created, this message will no longer appear.

Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$


this popped up. should i put that it? :S

Alex

Jan 31, 2010 3:06 PM in response to Casper Elmose

Last login: Sun Jan 31 22:56:48 on ttys000
Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$ locate GarageBand.app

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Please be aware that the database can take some time to generate; once
the database has been created, this message will no longer appear.

Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist
com.apple.locate: Already loaded
Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$ locate GarageBand.app

WARNING: The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Please be aware that the database can take some time to generate; once
the database has been created, this message will no longer appear.

Alexs-iMac:~ Alex$



now im confused? :S

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