08-07-2015, 01:50 AM
space-time wrote:
Sorry to hear about this. Apple is the new Microsoft, huh?
Not quite. If it was Microsoft it would just not be working for no reason.
The problem is that he never did the upgrades in the correct order the first time. Therefore he didn't get the apps loaded into his App Store account.
The correct way to do it is to do a clean install with the system disks that came with the machine and make sure to install your iLife suite. Then purchase 10.x from the App store and run that update. After that you will be prompted in the app store to upgrade the iLife apps for free. Once that is done and you have the apps in your purchased list you can go ahead and nuke and pave with 10.x first and then download the apps from your purchased list.