Do NOT Buy iLife 08

[t1937r0]

It is, just first time around I didn't delete the folders properly, purely renamed them so it still copied them all across.
I figured it was worth repeating what I did for anyone reading tha did the same as me

Thanks again!

ah. Cool. Glad I could help. And thanks for posting your experiences!

 

[Alistair1990]

Don't think this has been mentioned but double clicking at the top of iPhoto does not minimise it like it does with all other windows and applications - presuming this is a bug.

Alistair.

 

[sananda]

iweb is crashing on me and then when it restarts it says there are things missing and won't let me do anything.

 

[daveporter]

All of the iLife '08 applications are working fine here. Perhaps the problems that some of you are experiencing are related to third party plugins and/or applications that allow you to customize OSX's appearance and/or function. I don't have any plugins of that type and do not attempt to alter OSX.

I hope you find the source of your problems but I do not think that problem is the iLife software.

Dave

 

[squeeks]

I hope you find the source of your problems but I do not think that problem is the iLife software.

the problem is its very random, my friend has the same system as you dave, a 2.66 mac pro and he is having all kinds of problems with 08, the system is only about 2 months old and he hasent installed anything on it except, FCS2, and parallels

so i really think its a software issue with ilife that only affects certain systems

 

[Willis]

iLife 08 will be with me in a few days... if theres a problem, so be it.

 

[squeeks]

iLife 08 will be with me in a few days... if theres a problem, so be it.

ah another person who enjoys self inflicted pain

 

[daveporter]

the problem is its very random, my friend has the same system as you dave, a 2.66 mac pro and he is having all kinds of problems with 08, the system is only about 2 months old and he hasent installed anything on it except, FCS2, and parallels

so i really think its a software issue with ilife that only affects certain systems

That's interesting. I have three Macs here at home and a number of them at my office; iLife is functioning fine on all of them. The only thing that is common to all of them is the lack of any plugins and OSX modification software. Other then that, each Mac has a number of different commercial software programs on it (including Parallels in most cases).

There must be something common to those systems that are having problems which is the source. Hopefully, if everyone that reports the problem also lists their Mac's specifications and any plugins/OSX mod software installed the culprit will become known.

Dave

 

[theBB]

There were reports of iDVD themes from previous versions (version 1 and 2) being copied during the installation process that causes issues. I cannot remember which thread I read it on, but it should not be that hard to find.

 

[thestaton]

just wanted to say I upgraded from iLife 08 and it's been a pleasure. no problems with iPhoto, iMovie or iWeb. All working great.

 

[acrafton]

Buy ILife - It works Great!

Geez. . .let's relax.

I bought it yesterday, installed it and have already converted my IPhoto library (12K photos), 5 hours of video for IMovie and all is working really nicely.

Go out and buy it and enjoy it. . .!

Adam

 

[iBunny]

Runs Perfect on my C2D SR MacBook Pro.

I Formatted the OS and installed iLife 08 Fresh however, with no previous iLife to get in the way.

Works great, same with iWork.

 

[Lesser Evets]

Works well here. I love the new iWeb2, but am still working it all out and testing. Seems not to be WYSIWYG yet, though. iTunes is fine! Haven't tried the rest of it.

 

[sananda]

All of the iLife '08 applications are working fine here. Perhaps the problems that some of you are experiencing are related to third party plugins and/or applications that allow you to customize OSX's appearance and/or function. I don't have any plugins of that type and do not attempt to alter OSX.

I hope you find the source of your problems but I do not think that problem is the iLife software.

Dave

i have no third party plugins and haven't altered osx in any way. but iweb is crashing away merrily here.

 

[Butters]

I'm actually having problems with imovie 08, it crashes 2 seconds after i open it. every single time.. As such I haven't had a chance to even use it yet

 

[sananda]

That's interesting. I have three Macs here at home and a number of them at my office; iLife is functioning fine on all of them. The only thing that is common to all of them is the lack of any plugins and OSX modification software. Other then that, each Mac has a number of different commercial software programs on it (including Parallels in most cases).

There must be something common to those systems that are having problems which is the source. Hopefully, if everyone that reports the problem also lists their Mac's specifications and any plugins/OSX mod software installed the culprit will become known.

Dave

perhaps you should have a little read over at the apple discussion pages. tell the many many people having problems that because all is fine for you there is nothing wrong with the software. have you created and published websites on all of your macs with ilife08? just so i can be sure there's nothing wrong with the software and it's the plugins i don't have.

 

[t1937r0]

All of these statements pertain to my installation of iLife '08

iWeb crashes randomly, about once every five minutes of use.
iMovie has crashed once. I've logged about three solid hours of editing.
iDVD crashed every time I started it until I removed the old iDVD themes. Now its fine.
iPhoto is working fine. I've got about 14k photos, which I'm busily sorting into events.
iTunes is working fine. Of course, it wasn't part of my upgrade.
Garageband started fine the first (and only) time I started it.

 

[squeeks]

That's interesting. I have three Macs here at home and a number of them at my office; iLife is functioning fine on all of them.

thats great for you, but you know what, like i said before, i have three macs, and NONE of them run iDVD i finally got my MBP working though, i spotlighted...yeah..idvd and threw everything in the trash, and reinstalled JUST iDVD and it works lovely now, i even figured out how they expect you to get your imovie project into idvd, its kinda nifty actually, it renders the video to a "media something or other i forget" thats then accessible from all ilife apps

i still wish imovie had a save function

 

[daveporter]

perhaps you should have a little read over at the apple discussion pages. tell the many many people having problems that because all is fine for you there is nothing wrong with the software. have you created and published websites on all of your macs with ilife08? just so i can be sure there's nothing wrong with the software and it's the plugins i don't have.

As a matter of fact, we used iWeb on several of our office Macs today updating websites for several of our clients...no problems. Last evening I used iMovie to develop two 15 minute projects...no problems. Yesterday I started updating my 12,000 picture iPhoto library by sorting them into events...no problems.

I'm not saying that your not having problems. What I'm trying to tell you is that more than likely, there must be some incompatible component of your system and those of some others that is causing the problems you are describing. These components might be plugins, third party software, left over pieces from prior versions of the software that weren't removed during the install, I don't know what. What I do know that on my systems, we are not seeing any of the problems...none.

What I am commenting on is the title of the thread: "Do Not Buy iLife 08" which to me seems over the top since iLife works fine here and for a number of other folks.

Dave

 

[daveporter]

thats great for you, but you know what, like i said before, i have three macs, and NONE of them run iDVD i finally got my MBP working though, i spotlighted...yeah..idvd and threw everything in the trash, and reinstalled JUST iDVD and it works lovely now, i even figured out how they expect you to get your imovie project into idvd, its kinda nifty actually, it renders the video to a "media something or other i forget" thats then accessible from all ilife apps

i still wish imovie had a save function

Yea, I found the lack of a save function strange too. As you know, iMovie does save when ever you close out the program I guess. The big problem with this is that I have not found a way of NOT saving changes that I made if I did not like them. You have to go back and fix any mistakes prior to closing the program since there is no backing out.

I'm glad you solved your problems. I wonder if what happened during the first install of iDVD some leftover older version parts stayed behind and conflicted with the new version; then when you trashed all the iDVD files you trashed the old stuff too and that is why the new install works now. If that is the case, hopefully someone can identify what old files are sticking around that can be trashed to fix the problem for the other folks.

Dave

 

[millap]

imovie dosent have an export to dvd, they even removed the send to iDVD feature

This feature is still there, although it works a little different to how it used to. You have to Share to the Media Browser from iMovie, and then use the media browser in iDVD to import the project. Not the one step process that it used to be, but at least it works.

 

[squeeks]

This feature is still there, although it works a little different to how it used to. You have to Share to the Media Browser from iMovie, and then use the media browser in iDVD to import the project. Not the one step process that it used to be, but at least it works.

thanks, you'll notice in my last post that i figured that out

 

[squeeks]

I wonder if what happened during the first install of iDVD some leftover older version parts stayed behind and conflicted with the new version; then when you trashed all the iDVD files you trashed the old stuff too and that is why the new install works now. If that is the case, hopefully someone can identify what old files are sticking around that can be trashed to fix the problem for the other folks.

Dave

the general consensus is that its the older templates, its something to do with idvd trying to copy older stuff to the newer directory or something like that, but what i dont understand is why it only does this on some systems, thats so weird, i guess the upgrade installer looks and says, oh hey you have an older ilife ill just copy those templates later, goes on installing...

so when you start the program it says ok you have older stuff im going to copy that to my new directory, oh crap problem, CRASH, so by deleting the older stuff, the installer said, oh you have no templates, well i just so happen to have them all here on this little dvd, so it just installed it fresh with the new install (this is what im guessing anyway) but some people can do an upgrade fine, so, who the heck knows.

all i know is idvd works now and it works pretty well, cept i cant figure out how in the world it determines how your pictures are placed in its drop zones, the ability to modify that would be nice

 

[gabop]

So Frustrated!!!!


Hi everybody,
YOU GOT NO IDEA.
A real nightmare....never had a problem related to any Apple software suites before. I finally finished working on my website www.gabop.com using iLife 06. It went online about four months ago...everything, alway, flawless, not one crash, yes limited...but fine for what I need.

Four days ago: bought iLife 08 and iWork 08.
Installed both on 2 machines: dual 2.5 G5 (no intel) and a 17" intel that is six months old .
iPhoto kind of goods...I was very well organized...EVENTS screwed up everything...just a few hours of work...acceptable...ggghhh, so I can learn the new interface...

I created an archive for my old website, burned a CD, then launched iWeb and my old 06 domain file...all moved around, no files missing...reorganized and hit publish...my powerPC failed, and iweb crashed...tried again about 5 times...
Then thought, well maybe...let me try the intel machine...
So got the CD i just burned, loaded into my laptop, launched iweb...had to reorganize for the second time.
Then I published the site, and all went well.
Quit iWeb, went in Safari...all good....

DAY AFTER:
I wanted to work hte site a bit...I launche iWeb and opened my domain...NOTHING WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!! the page layout was fine, but all the files, movies, backgrounds, blogs, posts, podcast...ALL GONE.
I checked the domain file...10 Mb! WHAT? Last night it was over 100Mb.
I spent the morning redoing my site...I MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG...while I'm working I am monitoring the domain file...the size grows as I add my files....APPLE S! Save: BHAM! the domain file drops to 6.8 Mb...I wish I could film it.
NOTHING STAYS INTO THE DOMAIN FILE...Now this is how I am working.

I was able to duplicate the domain file and I keep it on my desktop while I do work with the original domain...I am trying to be some sort of HUMAN AUTOSAVE...duplicating my file when it grows...

But iWeb is very spontaneus and there is never a sign that something is going to happen...the file just becomes 1/10 of its original size...like that.

I read a few posts on this page.
- I know my system very very well. Never had a problem before
-I do not have any third party plug ins
- I do perform mantainance constantly
- I am not willing to "install a fresh OS and then use iLife08", but thanks for the tip...
Sorry for the long post, but at least now I let it out.

Oh, Sorry, Just one thing,
What's the matter with the iPhotop library? I loved to be able to "chronosync" my libraries across my machines...now the library is a whopping 16 Gb file, impossible to sync...I guess from Now on I will HAve to be a HUMAN SYNCH as well...and firewire my library back and forth.


PLEASE NOOOOO

Ciao.

 

[Lesser Evets]

iAlready purchased iWork. iWorks fine on my MacPro.