Reinstalling OS X Lion on 2011 Mac mini

[Edge]

I reinstalled too because I put in my own SSD. How do you get iLife back?

Open the App Store, go to the Downloads page. You will find a section called Apps to Accept. See my earlier post in another thread, with a screenshot attached.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13005630&#post13005630

When you next load the App Store, the Purchases section shows the iLife apps (iMovie, iPhoto, Garageband) under Apps to Accept.

It then associates those apps with the hardware UUID of your machine. Once accepted, they appear just as other purchased apps and you can choose whether or not to download them.

 

[Tommhuy]

As others have said, no. But as I mentioned earlier, it may not be as simple as that.


I didn't mention that the previous install was a Hackintosh install (yes, it booted the mini after Lion made some repairs.) This relates to your next question.


I am not sure whether the Lion repair/reinstall process does not check the install first and figure out which files need to be replaced/updated/removed (like the OTA updates for iOS 5 will do.) I erased the hard drive once the Repair partition had downloaded to my new SSD, I'm not sure whether it had already erased it or simply added the invisible 5GB partition to the existing install.

Thanks for the info! I guess a clean install of lion on the SSD will be good for it anyway