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I reformatted my (new) iMac after a remote hacker got in -- now, I have lost many of the preinstalled programs like iPhoto. Where do I get it now? I shouldn't have to pay again :-( - it was preinstalled on the new computer. Thanks
Download it from the App Store, you need to log in with the ID you used to set up your machine. Check the purchases list.
See this document: Accept iLife: OS X: About OS X Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Scroll down to : "Restoring iLife applications after Internet Restore of OS X"
Try to download again from the Purchased tab at the App Store.
Restoring iLife applications after Internet Restore of OS X
If your computer came with OS X Lion or later and you erase your hard disk and install OS X, you can download iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand from the Mac App Store.
- After installation, start (up) from OS X.
- Choose App Store from the Apple menu.
- Enter your Apple ID and password when prompted.
- Click Purchases.
- If you haven't previously accepted your bundled iLife applications within the Mac App Store, you should see your iLife applications appear in the Accept portion of the screen. Click Accept.
- You may be asked for your Apple ID and password once again. Your iLife applications now move to the Purchased section. These applications are part of the software that came with your computer. Your account
I bought a NEW computer with everything loaded already. -- I did not buy the App. It does not show up in the purchases...
When did you buy it?
OK -- here's the miscommunications... iTunes has an App Store. That is NOT the "App Store" that will have the apps for the iMac on it -- that "App Store" is the newest part of Mavericks and is located ON TH COMPUTER was an application - A with a circle around it -- DUH! Very unlike Apple to be so counterintuitive. But i FOUND IT (thanks to a phone conversation with apple.) UGH!
Thanks all for your suggestions -- you obviously already knew what I was searching for and just didn't get why I couldn't find it! (There are TWO App stores!)
Clean install Mavericks - lost iPhoto
