Upgrade from Tiger to Snow

conehead12 · Nov 18, 2009, 06:28 PM

I updated from Tiger to SnowLeopard on my 2 year old iMac, apart from a few glitches the upgrade seems OK. I did the upgrade to install iLife 9, well guess what it won't load unless my system is 10.5.5.... Funny, I have 10.6.2 now. I assume that Apple has a bug to prevent this install if your haven't purchased Leopard initially. So I thought I would do a full install of SL by wiping the hard drive, install the system, then install iLife 9. Well the system loads and updates, but still iLife will NOT install, same issue....looking for 10.5.5 compatibility. iLife 8 still operates by drag n drop from backup system, (drag apps, themes and user preferences to like folders on Snow).

Next I tried to install a new system from Apple install disks of 10.6 with iLife 9 that was supplied with a brand new iMAc LED. Well guess what....it will not load to the computer (this model iMac) WTF!

Can anyone advise me what to do, I want to use iLife 9 on my Mac, maybe I could drag n drop from the new Mac to load.

HLdan · Nov 18, 2009, 07:40 PM

Not sure why your iLife 09 won't work on SL, especially after you did a full reformat and install. Well the LED iMac DVD won't work as it's machine specific so it's behaving properly. After you installed SL from the reformat and install, did you update to 10.6.2 first then install iLife 09? iLife 09 needs an update for SL and will not work with SL until that update is applied.

Gregg2 · Nov 18, 2009, 08:39 PM

Did you buy the box set of SL and iLife '09 (iWork '09 also)?

conehead12 · Nov 19, 2009, 06:26 PM

Did the SL install from the stand alone $40 version, then did upgrade to 10.6.2. iLife 9 comes from the LED machine and says cannot load, require system 10.5.5.
Should I install Leopard then do upgrades then install SL as upgrade then OS 10.6.2 upgrade the iLife. Its all a hassle.

As I indicated before it is possible to drag and drop iLife components from another system ie (apps, themes, prefs, etc)

Nermal · Nov 19, 2009, 06:36 PM

It sounds like you're trying to use a "bundle" version of iLife. It's only licensed for use on the computer that it came with.

Nov 18, 2009, 06:28 PM	#1
conehead12 macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2009	Upgrade from Tiger to Snow I updated from Tiger to SnowLeopard on my 2 year old iMac, apart from a few glitches the upgrade seems OK. I did the upgrade to install iLife 9, well guess what it won't load unless my system is 10.5.5.... Funny, I have 10.6.2 now. I assume that Apple has a bug to prevent this install if your haven't purchased Leopard initially. So I thought I would do a full install of SL by wiping the hard drive, install the system, then install iLife 9. Well the system loads and updates, but still iLife will NOT install, same issue....looking for 10.5.5 compatibility. iLife 8 still operates by drag n drop from backup system, (drag apps, themes and user preferences to like folders on Snow). Next I tried to install a new system from Apple install disks of 10.6 with iLife 9 that was supplied with a brand new iMAc LED. Well guess what....it will not load to the computer (this model iMac) WTF! Can anyone advise me what to do, I want to use iLife 9 on my Mac, maybe I could drag n drop from the new Mac to load.

Nov 18, 2009, 07:40 PM	#2
HLdan macrumors 68040 Join Date: Aug 2007	Not sure why your iLife 09 won't work on SL, especially after you did a full reformat and install. Well the LED iMac DVD won't work as it's machine specific so it's behaving properly. After you installed SL from the reformat and install, did you update to 10.6.2 first then install iLife 09? iLife 09 needs an update for SL and will not work with SL until that update is applied. __________________ My iBook G3 runs circles around your Core i7 notebook............as long as I'm carrying the iBook and doing the running.

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Nov 18, 2009, 08:39 PM	#3
Gregg2 macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI	Did you buy the box set of SL and iLife '09 (iWork '09 also)?

Nov 19, 2009, 06:26 PM	#4
conehead12 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2009	Did the SL install from the stand alone $40 version, then did upgrade to 10.6.2. iLife 9 comes from the LED machine and says cannot load, require system 10.5.5. Should I install Leopard then do upgrades then install SL as upgrade then OS 10.6.2 upgrade the iLife. Its all a hassle. As I indicated before it is possible to drag and drop iLife components from another system ie (apps, themes, prefs, etc)

Nov 19, 2009, 06:36 PM	#5
Nermal Demi-God (Moderator) Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Whakatane, New Zealand	It sounds like you're trying to use a "bundle" version of iLife. It's only licensed for use on the computer that it came with.