iLife

So I think I'm going to make the switch in the upcoming weeks, and was planning on doing an Archive & Install, as opposed to a straight Upgrade. From what I've read, it's somewhat like a clean install, but it creates a folder "Old System"? And when I'm done, I can drag my programs back over to the new system and all will be, theoretically, peachy. When I finally have...

You'll have to "extract" them. Clean installing means only what's on the Tiger DVD will be installed, and iLife is not a part of it. ...

I totally agree. Repped post.

Enough of those rather small and "fun" improvements already, Apple! Enough of those nice little filters for iPhoto, gadgets like Dashboard, convergence of iLife applications. ...

If I am in the wrong thread, pardon me... but it seemed that a lot of people in this thread were losing their iLife apps and I was terrified of losing mine in the clean install, as I have lots of photos, music, and movies. ...

This truly makes upgrading any non-DVD Mac a royal pain in the butt. I took the extreme measure and ordered an external DVD-RW drive; to me, this signifies that all future OS releases will come on DVD only as well as other software bundles (yeah I'm lookin' at you, iLife). It's a tough day when you come to the realization your Mac is behind-the-times and needs additional...

Here is my Tiger story - maybe it will help someone The product Superduper! (by Shirt Pocket) saved my iLife... I wanted to upgrade from 10.2.8 to Tiger on my iMac G4. After many tries, I finally figured out that my disk had come bad/corrupted files. I wanted to instal via Archive-install and retain my apps and settings, but according to Apple this would be impossible...

Found 'em. Thanks. Anyway, I'm still buying iLife '05, just to see how things look. ...

Viro, not sure if it's clear from my last post, but the software restore discs my friend had were the same as yours - Panther with iLife'04. By finding the hidden installation packages as described, you'll be able to restore these apps back. You don't need to buy iLife 05 unless you really want to (personally, I did and have hardly found it justifies the cost, but that's...

I know you have to buy iLife '05 if you want to get it. ...