Applications question

My wife spilt wine and killed my white MacBook on Saturday as posted previously, so ordered a unibody MacBook the next day. Got the computer last night and am loving it, and frankly it looks the dogs Danglies.

So maybe a dumb question. I managed to rescue the HD from my old MacBook but it seems my new one doesn't come with iLife so no iphoto, Garage band (indispensable as it is great for recording ideas quickly) etc. Is there any way of getting it from my old HD onto the new Mac? I suspect not but nothing ventured, nothing gained and I don't really want to spend 9000 yen on top of what I've just spent if I don't have to.

Isn't iLife part of the system? Did you get a clean install from the store or bough it from some1 else?

Are you planning on an enclosure for your old HD - that way you have ability to have bootable back up for future wine spills. If that is the case then with it connected you can copy across what you want before doing the back up. Other choice is to use Pacifist to install apps off either install disk.

Thanks for the replys guys.

Isn't iLife part of the system? Did you get a clean install from the store or bough it from some1 else?

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It had a clean install from the store as I got the welcome screen. So it seems it doesn't come with the install disks. Haven't checked mind you. I too thought it came with the machine, but guess only from Apple.

Are you planning on an enclosure for your old HD - that way you have ability to have bootable back up for future wine spills. If that is the case then with it connected you can copy across what you want before doing the back up. Other choice is to use Pacifist to install apps off either install disk.

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HD is in an enclosure, first thing i did so I will give that a go. Cheers.

I think if you just copy the applications they should work, you might need to create directories with the appropriate path .... however ... it probably is against the EULA ...

Prepare for ........... check out SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.

Isn't superduper more or less meant for backups? If he has a fresh new system I don't see any benefit from cloning the old system over it ... or I don't see where you're going with superduper, could you elaborate?

(I'm not familiar with superduper, so it might be stupid to ask)

SuperDuper does 2 main things - when using it to Clone it makes a copy of the Apps Folder and uses the main user files, so that one can test an application upgrade on the cloned apps folder before installing it in your Main Apps folder. Then the second use is to make and exact bootable copy of your HD so you can actually boot off an ext disk and carry on working as normal. It also will do a smart back up after the initial back up and only include files that have changed. For me a bootable back up is essential as HD and logic boards do fail - my MBP did after 18 months and i just carried on working from Ext HD copy until i got it back then uploaded the latest changes.

Rikimaru said:

Thanks for the replys guys.

It had a clean install from the store as I got the welcome screen. So it seems it doesn't come with the install disks. Haven't checked mind you. I too thought it came with the machine, but guess only from Apple.

HD is in an enclosure, first thing i did so I will give that a go. Cheers.

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As an aside I'd definitely speak to the store you got it from. If it's new it should come with the iLife and OSX install discs.

mrplow said:

As an aside I'd definitely speak to the store you got it from. If it's new it should come with the iLife and OSX install discs.

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Checked the boxes and neither this one nor my white MacBook came with iLife install discs, although the old one came with iLife installed.

I'll contact the store and see what they say.