Can't buy iPhoto

My cousin bought me Mac Mini and set it up for me because it's my first Mac. Now, I can't download the iLife suite because the computer ID is attached to his account. I've wiped the hard drive and reinstalled to no avail.
What does it take to get Apple to recognize new ownership?
The suite was bundled with the Mini and now I can't access it.

Was this Mac Mini released after July 20, 2011? If so, the iLife suite except iDVD is on the restore partition:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
Otherwise you need the original installer discs that came wtih the Mac Mini to install iLife.

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Last week I bought my Snow Leopard upgrade so I could upgrade my iphoto (and easily post higher resolution photos to facebook). I finally opened up the app store and it would only let me buy and download iPhoto 9.3.2, which requires Mountain Lion - thus i wasn't allowed to download iPhoto. How can I buy iPhoto 9.0, and not the latest version?
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How can I buy iPhoto 9.0, and not the latest version?
One way is to seek out a boxed version of iLife '11.
You can find it at place like Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U TF8&qid=1344722635&sr=8-1&keywords=ilife
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Where can I buy iPhoto for Mac OS X 10.6.8?

You will need to purchase an iLife 11 installer disk. Try Amazon or Ebay.

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Hello, i bought a used macbook air. after deleting the pre owners' admin account and deleting the harddisk i install OS X lion again. After that i wanted to buy iphoto in app store to use photostream on my macbook. But in the app store it wasn't possible to buy. The button says only "accept" and when i click on it i have to login with my apple id. after this a notification windows opens which says i'm not able to accept because another apple id (from pre owner) bought it before. i don't know his id or password. but there is no possibility to buy it again in the store. it's just to accept but doesn't work...
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Disclaimer - For me the Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico my first language is Spanish. I do not speak English, however I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture very different from that found in most 1st world nations, such as that in the two dominant North American countries. Written language has no tone. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
You will also find the Mac OS X Lion on your new-to-you Mac is tied to the previous owner's Apple ID. The two of you together need to contact Apple Care and request that Mac OS X Lion and the bundled iLife apps be releaed from his Apple ID, so that they can be accepted into your Apple ID.

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Hello I can't buy apps iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand there is mentioned instead of price only "accept" but when I clicked on it and wrote my Apple ID I received error message. My Mac Mini was bought from another person but fully reinstalled.
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Mirek

I tried it from browser then I was forwarded to App Store, then I tried it directly from Dock with App Store icon.
No, I haven't iPhoto nor iMovie at the Purchase list.
Yes, my Apple ID is active I'm buying apps all the time but with this three I have problem.
I wrotte to Apple support so I will see.
Thanks again for your time and help, but I think we are to short for this :-(

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I am at a lose. I have checked my apple account, changes my country...did the updates...
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I am already using iPhoto '11. Here is some more information. It also does not work if I try to order prints. I get an error message that says the session has timed out.
If I logout of the computer and log in as a different user iphoto seems to work and has no trouble connecting to my account and ordering prints. I assume this means that some file is corrupted but I already tried throwing out the iphoto preferences and that did not help.
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Must update to i Photo 9.4, or 11?
The version naming is confusing.
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To use applications that are associated with your old AppleID, you need to sign into the AppStore with the old AppleID, if you need to update the apps or reinstall them.
Is the problem that you need to update to iPhoto 9.6.1 and cannot?
Do you iPhoto on the Purchases tab of the AppStore, when you sign into the AppStore with your old AppleID?
You may need to unhide your Purchases as described here at this link: Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases
If you see the apps among your Purchases, try this User Tip:
Get iPhoto 9.6.1 if you didn't update before OS... | Apple Support Communities
The main idea is to move the iPhoto app to the Trash, so Spotlight does not see it as installed, reload the AppStore, and then to try to download again from the App Store - from your Purchases tab, not from the main page, since you can neither buy iPhoto nor update it, but you can reinstall, if your AppleID is associated with it.

Unable to buy iPhoto

I've a iPhoto application installed with another friends account which I don't have access too.
I deleted the app and trying to buy through the app store it shows the link as "Accept" not "Buy".
When i click that
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Having the same problem. Anyone figure it out?

Can't update iPhoto: message says it was "bought by a different user or refunded or cancelled." None of that is true. Can't buy it, either.

I've been trying to update my iPhoto because my old version (9.3.2) no longer works now that I've updated my OS to Mavericks (10.9.2). When I try to update, I get the message that I can't because iPhoto was purchase by some other user or was refunded or cancelled. I don't know how this could be--this was a new computer that I got through work that came loaded with iPhoto already. I figured that I would just buy iPhoto again and load it up, but the Apple Store will only show me the option to UPDATE and not BUY, so I am stuck in this loop.

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If that is not working then you must contact App store suport - link is on the right of the App store window
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My iphoto library has become unreadable. I am wondering if I shoudl delete iphoto and reinstall? Can I download iphoto from the web? I bought my computer in February of this year. Do I have to buy a new copy?

It's probably the library that's the prolem and not the application. Try this: launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists. If you can create and open a new library then your existing library is damaged.
If that's the case, Make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
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Contact App Store support. There's a link on the right hand side of the App Store Window. They're the only ones who can sort out account issues.

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I have created an album in iphoto but can't buy it because I still use iphoto 08 (version 7.0). If I upgrade to version 8.0 which is iphoto 09 can I print my album in New Zealand?

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