I'm trying to get my mom's computer to automatically back up photos to an external drive whenever there is an update.
iCloud is full and she doesn't want to purchase more space, apparently.
Problem is the computer was upgraded after a hard drive replacement a long time ago, and extra apps that come with iLife were never installed. Tutorials suggest automatically backing up photos to another folder should be trivial: just update preferences in iPhoto.
iLife was never purchased so just choosing "upgrade" from the purchased tab isn't an option. (There are no purchases under her apple ID).
iPhoto can't be found in the app store, not that it would matter: as a test I tried to install Garage Band and it requires OS X 12.12 and above.
I looked for an iPhoto download with google. It brought me to this page:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/iphoto
which appear to only be updates: requiring an older version of iphoto to already be installed
There is an iWork CD that originally came with the iMac. I attempted to install from it but the CD is not being even read/recognized by the OS. (For the heck of it I'm still looking into how I can mount it so I can view the contents)
so my only other option would be to re-install the original OS, which seems like serious overkill (I believe everything is backed up though, but I don't have an upgrade CD for Mavericks. The repair shop guy just installed it).
iCloud is full and she doesn't want to purchase more space, apparently.
Problem is the computer was upgraded after a hard drive replacement a long time ago, and extra apps that come with iLife were never installed. Tutorials suggest automatically backing up photos to another folder should be trivial: just update preferences in iPhoto.
iLife was never purchased so just choosing "upgrade" from the purchased tab isn't an option. (There are no purchases under her apple ID).
iPhoto can't be found in the app store, not that it would matter: as a test I tried to install Garage Band and it requires OS X 12.12 and above.
I looked for an iPhoto download with google. It brought me to this page:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/iphoto
which appear to only be updates: requiring an older version of iphoto to already be installed
There is an iWork CD that originally came with the iMac. I attempted to install from it but the CD is not being even read/recognized by the OS. (For the heck of it I'm still looking into how I can mount it so I can view the contents)
so my only other option would be to re-install the original OS, which seems like serious overkill (I believe everything is backed up though, but I don't have an upgrade CD for Mavericks. The repair shop guy just installed it).