The other day I completly removed QuickTime from my computer by mistake. I went to the apple website to try and download it but there is no link for a .dmg. Instead there is a message that says "Use Software Update to keep QuickTime up to date on your Mac". Does anyone know how I can get QuickTime back?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Thanks for the quick response! I went to the link you posted, but all the downloads are for QuickTime 7. I am trying to get QuickTime X back. Any other ideas? I wish i had a physical copy of OS X lion, then I could just reinstall QuickTime from the CD.
Raiden_255 wrote:
Thanks for the quick response! I went to the link you posted, but all the downloads are for QuickTime 7. I am trying to get QuickTime X back. Any other ideas? I wish i had a physical copy of OS X lion, then I could just reinstall QuickTime from the CD.
The only way to get a physical copy is either to download it and burn it onto a DVD as per instuctions elsewhere on this site or else buy a USB stick for 60 bucks from the Apple Store, so personally I would just make sure I had a backup to migrate from and reinstall using the Reinstall Partition in Lion.
Pete
If you have a package unpacker such as Pacifist, and you kept your Lion install download package, you can open this in Pacifist and explore your way to the quicktime installer package. I did this recently as QTX was giving me stuttering problems in playing back mpegs. Reinstalling didn't solve that problem, but at least I now know how to get it back!
Full instructions on this post:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3211914?start=0&tstart=0
As long as you use a recent version of Pacifist it works fine.
Just restore from your TimeMachine backup.
OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
I accidentally uninstalled quicktime. How do i get it back?
