Open iMovie HD in Yosemite

Question

Open iMovie HD in Yosemite

iMovie HD is no longer supported in Yosemite. How do I work with these old files?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 2, 2015 8:17 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Klaus1

Level 9

52,749 points

Jun 2, 2015 10:36 AM in response to Charles Scurlock

(Originally posted by Ziatron)

For the millions trying to use iMovie HD with Yosemite

Some people keep a separate hard drive or partition with Mavericks on it to avoid the below procedure. However, once you get the below set up, it's no big deal.

A while back, someone posted a "patch" to iMovie HD 06 that corrected the launching issue. For some reason, Apple removed the post.

Yosemite has a bug that incorrectly identifies iMovie 6 (a.k.a. iMovie HD) as not compatible. iMovie HD works fine with Yosemite.

Below is a workaround that many use until this bug is fixed.

> Find iMovie HD in your applications folder.

> Right click on it, and select “Show Package Contents”.

> You will then find a folder named "Contents”. Open it. Then open the folder named "MacOS”.

> There you will find "iMovie HD". Double-click on this, and iMovie HD will launch.

> Then create an alias. iMovie HD starts directly from the alias.

Reply

Answer 2

rkaufmann87

Level 10

140,532 points

Jun 2, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Charles Scurlock

Charles,

If you don't get your answer on this forum, you may want to consider posting in both the iMovie and Yosemite forums.

Reply

Answer 3

Jul 2, 2015 1:58 AM in response to Klaus1

Thanks for this. It certainly works for me and now I can rescue my old files which go back almost a decade. Backward compatibility is always a worry and there is never any warning for oldies like me when you opt to upgrade your system. I just wonder why Apple felt it necessary to disable it in this way...

Chris

Reply