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Enable Front Row In Mac OS X Lion
Mar 11, 2025
How to enable Front Row in Mac OS X Lion. The files you will need to restore are: /Applications/Front Row.app /System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can use front row in Mac OS 10
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line now the front row was one of the
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casualties in OS 10 line and apple
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decided to cut it I'm not quite sure why
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I'm thinking it's cuz they wanted to
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push the Apple TV uh but whatever the
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reason it's gone now and if you're
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frustrated by that there's a way you can
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get it back there's three ways to get it
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back the first two are the easiest and
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that's what I'm going to highlight today
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the third one involves a lot of
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different things that are just very I
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don't know not worth it in my opinion so
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we're not going to go into that uh but
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the two easy ways are if you have
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another Mac running snow leopard yet or
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if you have a time machine backup of
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your Mac and one of the backups is from
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when you were still running snow leard
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and the third way that I'm not going to
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talk about today is if you have a snow
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leopard installation disc you can
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extract some files off there but it
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involves downloading some software and
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digging around in the system disc which
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I don't know is it seems like a lot of
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work for me and the other two ways are
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so much easier that I wouldn't even pay
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to do it the third way so the two ways
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I'm going to show you today work
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identical to each other the methods that
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you use uh the only difference is how
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you go about doing them uh so for the
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time machine backups you're going to go
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into time machine to do it and if you're
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running on snow leer just it's going to
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go into the
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finder so I already have the files
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restored and you can see if I go into my
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applications folder front row is right
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there so what you need to do is you need
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to restore a couple different files
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around your hard drive and the files are
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not there in line but they are there in
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snow leopard I'm going to show you the
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files that you're going to need to
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restore from either a time machine
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backup of snow leopard or a snow leopard
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installation on a different Mac so the
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first file is just if you go into your
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applications folder on your hard drive
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and you go over to Front Row uh you're
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going to need to restore this from your
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snow leopard backup or
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installation that's pretty simple uh the
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next one you're going to have to go to
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your hard drive Macintosh HD and go into
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your system folder and then from there
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the library
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folder from there the core Services
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folder let me just find it
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here and in the core Services folder
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there will be another application called
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front row and it's right here oh no
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right there so you're going to have to
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restore this file as well now if you're
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in time machine you can just hit the
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restore button you'll have to type your
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administrator password uh but if you're
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on Snow Leopard you'll probably want to
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put in a USB flash drive just copy these
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files to the flash drive and put them in
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the respective folders when you get back
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on your lion machine
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so the next file is if you go back into
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your library folder you're going to have
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to go into the a launch agents
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folder and in that folder you're going
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to have to find com. apple. remote ui.
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pist so I'm going to code on here so
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here is com. apple. remote. pist and
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it's just a property list
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file and the next file you're going to
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have to get is if you're going to syst
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system library and then private
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Frameworks there are the last two files
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in here and they're actually entire
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folders that you're going to want to
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restore so the first one is back R.F
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framework that's right here and the last
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one is ioto axis.
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framework and let me just find that
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right there so those two folders as well
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now after you have all these files and
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you put them back in their respective
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locations if you open if you try to open
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front row it's not going to work you're
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just going to have to restart your Mac
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and then from there I can either use my
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Apple remote or I can just click on
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front row and a front row will launch
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for me here and you can see it works
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just as it normally would this
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understudy thing is a separate third
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party application I installed in the
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front row but you can see it's all
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working here I can go into movies and I
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can look at the iTunes top movies it all
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works and it's all just like it should
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be so that's how you get fr front row
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working on your lion
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installation and as always if you have
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any how that you'd like to see me do
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especially with Lion recently coming out
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make sure to send me an email I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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