iLife ‘08: no uninstall option
Posted on September 24, 2007
Filed Under All, Photos, Technology, Apple |
We have tried repeatedly to reinstall iLife ‘06 (actually, just iPhoto ‘06) in an attempt to get back our 30,000 missing pix (and dozens, if not hundreds of Folders). Turns out there’s no uninstall in iLife ‘08 - or if there is it’s undocumented.
Going to the Apple Support forums this morning, and clicking iLife ‘08, I get:
Error
An error in the system has occurred. Please contact the system administrator if the problem persists.
So, no pictures, no folders, no luck re-building database - even with manual rebuild (which loses rotates, folders, keywords et al.), no support: what’s a guy to do? I think I’ll ask for a refund and try to move everything to MS Expression Media, aka ImageView…
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