The day before, an Apple employee in the sales department actually sold me iMovie v9.0 (2011 version) and was very helpful/ confident about it. He knew my operating system limits and knew that Mavericks and the current iMovie v.10.0 would not work on my macbook. Even the order confirmation/ receipt said 'iMovie '11 single unit'. Question: Q: IMovie for Yosemite 10.10.5 I have a MacBook Pro 13' early 2011 with 8Gb memory. I updated the OS as it asked for, now I have the Yosemite 10.10.5 but iMovie and Garage Band went away and Apple tells me I need a 10.11 OS at least.
Imovie 10.10.5
This is really obscure, but really easy.
It turns out that the full iMovie 9 app is included with the freely available iMovie 9.0.9 'update'...it just takes a little know-how and elbow grease to liberate it.
Here's what you do:
- Download iMovie 9.0.9 Update
- Double click
iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg
to mount itopen ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg
- Use Terminal.app to expand (not execute) the
pkg
archivepkgutil --expand /Volumes/iMovie 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/
- Rename
Payload
toPayload.zip
mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
- Unpack
Payload.zip
(toPayload 2
)open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip
- Move
iMovie
to theApplications
foldermv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie 9.0.9.app
Tada!
Enjoy!
You have to do some of these steps from the command line, so you might as well do all of them from the command line to make it faster and less error prone:
Make sure you unplug any cameras or phones from your computer before opening iMovie for the first time,otherwise it'll take a while to catalog everything before you can begin to use it.
Imovie 10.10.5
This should work, in 2020, on all of the MacOS releases:
- 10.12 Sierra
- 10.13 High Sierra
- 10.14 Mojave
- 10.15 Catalina
If you have an older version of OS X, you may just need to download an older version of iMovie 9:
As long as the file size is about 1 GB, it probably contains the full version,meaning that a slight modification of the process outlined above will likely work.
If you try to get iMovie 10 from the App Store and you don't have the absolute latest version of macOSyou might get a warning like this:
Would could not complete your purchase
iMovie can't be installed on 'Macintosh HD' becausemacOS version 10.14.6 or later is required.
Imovie 10.10.5 Download
HOWEVER, if you first install iMovie 9 with the method shown above,when you next visit the App Store you will find that you now have the 'Upgrade' option.
Neat!
- See Get iMovie 9 On Mac OS Sierra! (Works As Of 2020!)
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