Upgrading iLife '11 (iPhoto) DVD so it works on Mavericks?

[HarpingOn]

Seen a few articles around the net describing this-and-that way of doing
this, but nothing I've tried will work.

I have the retail DVD of iLife '11, and a recent OS upgrade to Mavericks
means that iPhoto will not run. It says it needs to be upgraded.

The Mac App Store will show the iPhoto item, and suggest it be updated,
but pressing update tells me it's impossible with my Apple ID.

I've written to Apple App Store support, twice, and heard nothing. It's
been a week.

Anyone got any magic bullets I can shoot at this thing to get the iPhoto
update installed? I don't care a hoot about the rest of iLife, but I do
care about iPhoto. I've tried removing it, reinstalling from DVD, doing
that and then not running it, signing in and out of the MAS, nothing has
helped so far :(

Cheers

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:32:20 +0100, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

I think Apple will need to fix something for you, since it should be a
straight update from '11 to current. You do need some part of iLife'11
in your /Applications for iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband to appear, but
sounds like you have that.

You don't have a second Apple ID, or the person who first used your most
recently purchased Mac used a different one or something like that?
Since the iLife apps come for free with new hardware, perhaps they've
been tied to someone elses's ID.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
Being english is like visiting a zoo where all the
animals are other english people, in the rain.
-- Cyriak Harris

[HarpingOn]

On 15/10/2014 19:14, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

> You don't have a second Apple ID, or the person who first used your most
> recently purchased Mac used a different one or something like that?
> Since the iLife apps come for free with new hardware, perhaps they've
> been tied to someone elses's ID.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
>

I think old iLife came with this Mac. Then I upgraded using the iLife
box at the same time as going to Snow Leopard, this predates the MAS
versions IIRC.

Still waiting to hear from Apple. No idea how long I should wait, I've
already exceeded their estimated time by a factor of two, twice over.

[David Empson]

A thought occurs to me: exactly which version of iPhoto is installed? If
you reinstalled from DVD it might not be fully up to date, and the App
Store "automatic free upgrade to the App Store version for iLife '11"
mechanism might be stupid about expecting the apps to be a recent enough
minor version.

The last version of iPhoto which could be installed as a manual update
of the DVD edition of iLife '11 was 9.4.3. Its updater is available
here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1650

(iPhoto 9.4.3 is also too old to run on Mavericks - you need iPhoto
9.5.x.)

--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

[HarpingOn]

On 16/10/2014 00:40, David Empson wrote:

> A thought occurs to me: exactly which version of iPhoto is installed? If
> you reinstalled from DVD it might not be fully up to date, and the App
> Store "automatic free upgrade to the App Store version for iLife '11"
> mechanism might be stupid about expecting the apps to be a recent enough
> minor version.
>
> The last version of iPhoto which could be installed as a manual update
> of the DVD edition of iLife '11 was 9.4.3. Its updater is available
> here:
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1650
>
> (iPhoto 9.4.3 is also too old to run on Mavericks - you need iPhoto
> 9.5.x.)
>

Ah thanks, I'll try that. I did find an updater similar to that for
iWork, but I never found one for iLife. I'll try that tonight

Cheers

[HarpingOn]

On 16/10/2014 00:40, David Empson wrote:

> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1650
>
> (iPhoto 9.4.3 is also too old to run on Mavericks - you need iPhoto
> 9.5.x.)
>

And ... Well, somewhat surprisingly, 9.4.3 just worked on Mavericks.

So now I have a working iPhoto again. Yay. All libraries updated.

It still won't let me move to the latest App Store version, but now I
don't need to.

Thanks for the link