Restoring old software
I just purchased Leopard and installed it on my girlfriend's Macbook.
First, some history: she used to use an old Powerbook with OS 9. When she bought the new Macbook with OS X Tiger, she just did the firewire direct-transfer.
Simply put, it didn't quite work. There were nonexistent virtual drives and all sorts of messed of things thanks to the transfer. It only let her use 40GB of a 120GB drive.
My answer: get around to buying Leopard and just wipe the harddrive to install.
Problem: it erased her copy of iLife that came with Tiger.
My question: is there any way to reinstall her copy of the iLife applications (most specifically iPhoto) on Leopard?
She's happy and doesn't want to go back to Tiger, but I don't believe I can use the Tiger install disk to put those apps on her Leopard machine.
You will have to install iLife from the system restore disks that came with her computer - use the custom install bundled software option
For more details see this MacWorld article.
LN
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Need a little more detail as to what you were doing when the
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I know there are tons of information out there in Google.
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Restoration http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14731537/Adobe-Photoshop-Photo-restoration-techniques
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