iLife 08 installed everything BUT iMovie... The ONLY thing I wanted out of it.

Hi,

If Spotlight is finding iMovie 7 on your computer then the application probably is stored in the Applications folder. Look in Applications and see if you can see an iMovie 7 icon, grayed out or not. If it's there, control-click on it and click on Show Package Contents in the drop down menu. Then click on MAC OS > iMovie and see if iMovie opens.

-- Rich

"you can't use this version of the application "iMovie" with this version of OSX you have iMovie 7.0... " but I don't. I have no iMovie on the the computer except the one I'm trying to install!!!!

The version of iMovie that is on iLife '08 is version 7, so the reference to iMovie 7.0 ,above, is probably that of the one

you are trying to open.

CTRL + click on the application and select GET INFO, you should see details of the version number.

I have not seen any mention of iMovie '08 (ver 7) not working with 10.9.5 so not sure what the problem is, unless it has something to do with installing the OSX from the You Tube video.

What operating system did your Mac originally come with, Leopard or Snow Leopard ?

If you do have the original install discs you could try installing iMovie from the second disc.

If the above does not work,you could try iMovie 9.0.9

In this link on about page 3

Imported DV is missing sound

Look for this

iMovie 9.0.9 should work fine in OS 10.9.5 and is similar to version 7

Might be worth renaming your existing iMovie first to, say, iMovie 7 so there is no conflict.

Since you need it for your job, perhaps your employer would buy an office laptop that you can take home to do your work. I think that a basic MacAir costs around $1100. Just a thought.

-- Rich

Hi Rich

Strange one this.

As Frustrated_strawberry needs this for their job it might be worth considering not updating to 10.9.5 and just staying with the original OS if iMovie works in that.

Hmmmmm. It may well be that iMovie 7 is not compatible with your operating system. It is a very old iMovie version that I have not seen discussed on the forum lately. If you want to try installing it from the original discs, you can probably buy the iLife '08 package from Amazon. No way of telling whether it will work.

-- Rich

I knew that you would come up with something. 🙂

-- Rich

That could save the day.

-- Rich

Can you confirm something for me please.?

The YouTube video was an instruction on how to factory reset and then reinstall whatever your last version of OSX was from the iCloud Support using an internet connection in the Disk Utility during the startup

Firstly you factory reset to your original OS ( Leopard or Snow Leopard ????)

then updated to OSX 10.9.5 Then installed iMovie from iLife 08.Corect?

Try this instead.

Factory reset to your original OS, then install iMovie from iLife 08 then update to OSX 10.9.5