Q: I have accidently delete TextEdit in my computer, how can I reinstall it?

search the app store for textedit

http://tex-edit-plus.en.softonic.com/mac

you can also download it from here

I do hope you haven't downloaded text edit from a Softonic site.   That is the worst thing you could do.

Softonic has a bad reputation for injecting malware into their downloads.   Come on, Softonic, sue me if you dare.

Hello,

Get Text Wrangler...

http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

Does everything TE does, only better!

Sorry, try the  v3.5.3 here...

http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/updates.html

Important: TextWrangler 3.5.3 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later (10.5.8 recommended), and will not run on Mac OS 9 or any previous versions of Mac OS X. This version is a Universal application for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

http://pine.barebones.com/freeware/TextWrangler_3.5.3.dmg

Important: TextWrangler 3.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later (10.4.11 recommended), and will not run on Mac OS 9 or any previous versions of Mac OS X. This version is a Universal application for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

http://pine.barebones.com/freeware/TextWrangler_3.1.dmg

I'd like to start by clearing up a lot of the nonsense that has been said here…

TextEdit is not available to download on the App Store & Mac OS 10.5 cannot access that anyway!

Tex-edit-plus is not the same app and Softonic have a bad reputation as seventy one mentioned, avoid it at all costs.

Text Wrangler – whilst it is a nice 'plain text editor' for editing 'code' files it will not open & save Word documents correctly, I'm not sure it handles RTF either? It is not the same as TextEdit.

The options I see you having are…

1. Recover it from a backup (let me guess - you don't have any?).
2. Extract it from the original OS installation media, Pacifist can help do this, but you will need to dig into packages to find it.
3. Install OS X onto a spare disk & copy that over.
4. Reinstall OS X over the top of your current install, causing the original applications to be re-written

It has been so long since I installed 10.5 I cannot remember if there was a 'reinstall OS X' option so it is possible that number 4 is NOT AN OPTION. If you attempt this & don't have a full bootable backup you risk losing everything.

Option 2 is the safest,

Insert your Install DVD, try opening the following location (the 10.5 install DVD has an 'Essentials.pkg' that appears to contain TextEdit). This is hidden on the disk inside the following folders…

Mac OS Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg

Open that .pkg in Pacifist. It will create the layout that mirrors an installation, dig into 'Contents of Essentials.pkg' /Applications and you should find TextEdit.app. Try extracting that to a new location.

My terms may be incorrect since I used a newer version of Pacifist to check, but the general principle should be the same.

If you don't have the install DVD/ CD, frankly all hope is lost, go and buy one from Amazon or Ebay.

Now would also be a good time to learn how important backups are. Make one & keep it up to date, Carbon Copy Cloner will do that for you on 10.5.

P.S.

I dare say I haven't covered that thoroughly enough to complete it so ask if any parts are unclear.

To view the contents of the hidden items on the disk use the Finders 'Go menu > Go to folder…' to open the location I mentioned above.

Good luck

Thanks Drew, it does not handle RTF, no idea on Word, don't have any, but it handles other things besides text, like plists & directory listings... I did error/misspeak.

Text Wrangler is a nice app that I'd recommend over TextEdit any day, but only when coding with syntax highlighting is the aim.

TextEdit has it's place too

It's really handy for editing plists,& for treat drag a Folder or a whole drive to an empty TW window… wait!

Maybe you have a friend with a Mac that has same OS version and just copy from theirs??

good luck...