ilife '09 install failed?

Try this:

Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions

Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.

If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

BTW, are you installing from the iLife DVD?

Ha. You need a new friend. 😁

If you are using a clone of the DVD on the flash drive, then you should be able to just run the installer and select what you wish installed. I assume that's what you are doing?

If repairing the HD and permissions does not fix the problem, then you may need to reinstall Snow Leopard. Your prior installation may be corrupt.

Or there really is a problem with the files on your flash drive. You could then try repairing the flash drive to see if that fixes it. Otherwise, you need a new DVD.

If you don't mind a little work: There are many different files installed so you have to track them all down and reinstall them in the same place on the other machine. I would suggest you first download EasyFind 4.9.2. Use it to locate everything on the drive it's now installed on. Search for Garageband. Easy Find will find everything that's installed, files and folders, and list them in a window with filenames and locations.

Open a Finder window on your other computer then use the Reveal option of Easy Find. That will open a window with what you have selected from the Easy Find search result window. Select the item(s) to move and press COMMAND-C to copy. Go over to the same location on the other computer and press COMMAND-V to paste into that location.

There will be some locations you cannot normally access in the Finder. So use the Finder's Go menu on the target computer and select Go To Folder. Enter the desired path in the path dialog then press RETURN or click on the OK button. A Finder window will then open on the target computer for you to paste the item(s). This is all tedious stuff but necessary. Need to be careful that you are getting to the desired location on the target computer and not the source.

I hope this is understandable. It's off the top of my head very quickly.

Probably not. Hope I've earned one of those nice rewards you see. 🙂

You are most generous. Good luck with your venture. Problem with App Cleaner would be knowing where to put everything once it's in the Trash. Put Back won't work since it will only work on the machine from which the files were originally put in the Trash.

BTW, you can just copy the application from the Applications folder. That's not a problem. It's all the other stuff that makes up the other 1.2 GBs of the installation.