Sold eMac, seller says garageband not there. It should be.

Did you include the panther install disc(s) with the computer?

If so, he can stick those in and install Garageband from there.

If not, maybe it IS installed, but not in the dock...have him try looking in the applications folder.

I thought the iLife '04 disc was separate from the restore disks.

jmufellow said:

Puzzling...I sold my eMac and it had iLife 04 installed on it. It came with panther, which included iLife. He says he has all of the iLife apps, but is missing garageband. 😕

:EDIT: The title should say "Buyer says garageband not there."

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When you do Erase and Install of Mac OS X, only iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie will be installed. I'm not really sure why Garageband doesn't install, but tell him to use his Mac OS X DVD's to install Garageband. They will definetly be on the Restore CD's.

tell him to put in disc two, and open the installer.

zach

Apple switched over to including 2 restore DVDs with computers. These DVDs had Panther and all the preloaded apps on them. If you bought a Mac in 2004 and after MWSF, then the computer should have came with all the iLife '04 apps. This included Garageband. With the Restore DVDs that came with my PB last year all of the iLife apps except GarageBand and iDVD are on the first disk. Garageband and iDVD were pretty much the only apps on the second disk.

Have the buyer insert the first DVD and install Software Restore. From the Utilities folder under Applications, he should be able to reinstall all the software that came with the eMac. If that fails, he might have to install Garageband manually. This requires enabling hidden files for Finder and searching the second DVD. I have done this before when I didn't want to install all the programs I didn't use.