

HOWEVER, if you first install iMovie 9 with the method shown above, MacOS version 10.14.6 or later is required. IMovie can't be installed on "Macintosh HD" because If you try to get iMovie 10 from the App Store and you don't have the absolute latest version of macOS Meaning that a slight modification of the process outlined above will likely work. If you have an older version of OS X, you may just need to download an older version of iMovie 9:Īs long as the file size is about 1 GB, it probably contains the full version, This should work, in 2020, on all of the MacOS releases:

Otherwise it'll take a while to catalog everything before you can begin to use it. Make sure you unplug any cameras or phones from your computer before opening iMovie for the first time, Mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload\ 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie\ 9.0.9.app Move `iMovie.app` to the `Applications` folder

Open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip Unpack `Payload.zip` (it will get named `Payload 2`) Mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip Pkgutil -expand /Volumes/iMovie\ 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/ Download the iMovie 9.0.9 update packageĬurl '' -o ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg You have to do some of these steps from the command line, so you might as well do all of them from the command line to make it faster and less error prone: # 1.
