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Restore Missing OS X Features On New Macs
Mar 11, 2025
Watch this video in 2k resolution! Click "original" Showing how to get back iDVD, iWeb and extra desktop pictures on new Macs.
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head whenever I show you who can get
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back some of the missing features in OS
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10 line that are not shipping on new max
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so a couple days ago I picked up a 27
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inch imac and i was a couple things that
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I was a little bit shocked to see first
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of all when I wanted to system
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preferences and under desktop and
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screensaver you can see here that I have
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all these wallpapers but when I got the
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mac the only wallpapers that were there
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or the ones in the desktop pictures
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folder and none of the aqua blue ones
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are these tiles or here and I had solid
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colors as well none of these other
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folders with nature plants are none of
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those desktop pictures folders were
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there so I didn't really like that i
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always liked all the desktop pictures
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that you would normally get so that
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concerned me a little bit then when i
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went to my Applications folder I noticed
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that I did not have I web or I DVD now I
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kind of understand why it didn't get
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these apples have discontinuing them
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with the death of the DVD drives in most
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macs as well as I love with the death of
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Mobile Bay but these were two
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applications that i ought always liked
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and still be used for so i wanted to get
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these back say that's what i'm going to
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show you how to do now to do all this
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stuff you're going to have to have an
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older mac running either snow leopard a
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lion so if you're just purchasing a new
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map for the first time this puddle work
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out too well for you in this case i have
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my old 20 inch imac connected via screen
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turn over here and i'm going to show you
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what you need to do so first off what i
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did is i copied over the iWeb and idvd
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applications from my old applications
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folder to my new one and i thought i'd
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be all fine and good now i would work
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just fine but when i launched I EVD it
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told me that the themes were missing so
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to get the themes back what you're going
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to have to do is go into your old back
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into finder and then right in the road
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of your hard drive going to the library
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application support and then you
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shouldn't found an ID BD folder here and
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when you go over to your new mac your
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don't want that same folder to be there
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so in order to your main hard drive the
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library application support can see here
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that I have added iDVD folder here but
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if you just copy over the I DVD
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application you're not going to see this
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folder with all the themes in it so what
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you're going to have to do is take this
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entire idvd folder with all the themes
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in it you're going to have to copy that
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over to your new mac and just place it
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right in the application support folder
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so you can see here without the idvd
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folder in my application support folder
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when i launched I DVD and I create a new
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project and hit create it's hard to say
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there's no themes installed and wants me
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to look for themes so always to do is
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drag in the I DVD folder it's going to
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ask me to authenticate it but my
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password like that is answer now it
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copies over and now on our launch I DVD
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could create the project create going to
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see it load all the themes for the first
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time take a look longer than normal and
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then that you can see all the themes
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will appear to put right here the next
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thing I'm going to take care of is the
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desktop wallpapers so you can see there
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I already have all the desktop
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wallpapers copied over but if you buy a
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new mac you are not going to see these
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there so what I did is I want to run to
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my old Mac and we open up a new Finder
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window you long to want to go into
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library this one's a little bit simpler
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you just going to desktop pictures and
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in here you're going to see all the
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desktop pictures as well as all the
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different folders like solid colors etc
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now here's what gets a little bit tricky
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because if you just try to copy over the
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entire text on pictures folder and you
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take this folder and you go on to your
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new mac and you go into the library and
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you try to taste it right in this folder
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to overwrite the old one it's not going
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to let you so what you're going to have
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to do is you want to have to go over on
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your old Mac into the desktop pictures
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folder and just select all the pictures
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and folders in here using command a and
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you're going to have to take all the
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pictures that are inside and move those
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inside of the desktop pictures folder to
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make it work now I've done that here and
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it's once again going to ask you to
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authenticate it and it will copy over
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all your pictures and folders it will
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also give you a warning about
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overwriting the photos since some of the
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photos that are on the new Mac will also
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exist on your old Mac able to do that
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all you have to do is launch system
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preferences and you're going to see all
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these folders of pictures there so if
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you've recently bought a new mac and
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you're missing iowa and I DVD as well as
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your desktop pictures I hope this kind
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of clears things up for you as always if
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you have any how to's that you'd like to
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see me do make sure to send me an email
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hope you found this video useful thank
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you for watching
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