IMovie won't upgrade on Yosemite

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IMovie won't upgrade on Yosemite

Hi, yesterday I bought a new Macbook pro 13 - Retina 256Gb. I upgraded it today to Yosemite, I wanted to start IMovies after the update, but it does't start - it says: "You can´t use this version of the application "IMovie" with this version of OS X" You have "IMovie" 10.0.3." - telling me basically to update the application.

But here comes the problem, after I installed Yosemite I cannot upgrade any "ILife" application on Appstore. I get the message: "Update Unavailable with this Apple ID This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled."

This is the screenshot:

I must also add that I CAN download other things on Appstore (with the same Apple ID) + I signed in on this forum also with the same Apple ID. Can anybody help me?!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 256 Gb SSD

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 1:39 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 17, 2014 2:03 PM in response to trauca

SAME ISSUE! Bought a new iMac, used iMovie and other Ilife apps. today I upgraded to Yosemite and can't upgrade iMovie or any Ilife apps. I get THE SAME messages you have. Apple please help. I want to edit some movies.

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Answer 2

Oct 18, 2014 6:17 AM in response to Viking1749

same here...bought my first ever Mac which arrived yesterday...set it up...installed Yosemite when prompted....trying out some of the software... open up iMovie and get the message... go to the app store to update and get the same messages as the posts above.

I guess somebody tripped on the cord???

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Answer 3

Oct 18, 2014 8:24 AM in response to trauca

Same for me, it's not a new Mac, but it was a couple of months ago. iPhoto having the same problem as well. I've tried uninstalling and redoing for both and get the same error message each time.

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tomihome

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Oct 18, 2014 9:49 AM in response to trauca

I have a similar problem. iMovie has updated if I look into the list of the App Store......but the already installed iMovie program remains the old one.

So it will not start, showing the hint that I have only version 10.0.1 that is not compatible with Yosemite. A bad bug that must be solved very quick by Apple !!

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Oct 18, 2014 9:51 AM in response to trauca

I'm having the same problem. Originally I thought that I was having issues because my Mac was refurbished, but now I think it's something with the AppStore. Somehow I was able to use the iPhoto Library Upgrader and get my iPhoto to upgrade and work, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent solution for iMovie...

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tomihome

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Oct 18, 2014 10:16 AM in response to tomihome

I have a similar problem. iMovie has updated if I look into the list of the App Store......but the already installed iMovie program remains the old one.

So it will not start, showing the hint that I have only version 10.0.1 that is not compatible with Yosemite. A bad bug that must be solved very quick by Apple !!

UPDATE: I solved the problem ! I had saved an old folder with iMovie 9 on an external drive. The update was done on iMovie 9 (external drive) instead of iMovie 10 in the program folder. I found the new iMovie 10.0.6 and made a Copy to the program folder. Now all works fine.

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trauca Author

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Oct 18, 2014 10:51 AM in response to tomihome

@tomihome great to hear that you found a way to fix it. 🙂

Still this is not very helpful solution for us, who bought new MacBooks and don´t have older versions of iMovie. Apple please solve the issue.

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dubbie02

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Oct 18, 2014 11:48 AM in response to trauca

I had the same problem with a brand new macbook. I went to the Purchases tab in app store and it said that iMovie, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers etc. had to be linked to my Apple ID. It then had me "Purchase" them (but didn't cost anything), log in with my apple ID for each app; then the updates worked.

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trauca Author

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Oct 18, 2014 12:21 PM in response to dubbie02

dubbie02 seems to solve the problem.

How to fix the issue:

- Go to Purchases tab in AppStore
- Apply your AppleID to iMovie, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers etc. ( I had to type in my password for every of the apps)

- Update the apps

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Ann Laux

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Oct 18, 2014 8:33 PM in response to trauca

I tried this, but the application of my AppleID does not stick and it keeps looping back to that I have updates I need to accept. However, the 10.0.6 iMovie is listed as recently installed, and when I click on it in the recent updates list, it says "open" and when I click on "Open" nothing happens. The installed app on my hard drive is still 10.0.3 and it will not open. I can't seem to re-download the update to try reinstalling it.

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Answer 11

Oct 21, 2014 12:41 AM in response to dubbie02

Thanks so much dubbie! I wish Apple had made it a bit more obvious to check the purchases page.

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banza01

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Oct 22, 2014 8:24 AM in response to trauca

same here

dubbie02 seems to solve the problem but i can't understand

so what i gonna do guys little help here pls

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banza01

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Oct 22, 2014 8:32 AM in response to dubbie02

i am in purchases tab

in appstore now what i gonna do

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trauca Author

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Oct 22, 2014 11:23 AM in response to banza01

@banza01:

Did you even upgrade to Yosemite? I can see you are downloading it. If you did, can you scroll down in purchases tab, to find IMovie, Garageband, Iphoto,..etc.?

Can you screeshoot the updates tab?

@Ann Laux:

If you try to launch IMovies from the Launchpad..what happens?

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Answer 15

Oct 22, 2014 10:13 PM in response to trauca

I am facing an issue that App Store shows that iMovie needs an update, but when I click Update, nothing happens. The initial download was interrupted and now Update is stuck. Is there a link where we can download the iMovie dmg and do a clean install of version 10.0.6?

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