New Mac, missing iLife

[koffiejunkie]

New Mac, installed a new SSD, installed Lion from USB (made with the installer I bought before on my old Mac). All good.

iLife is missing though. I read http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

If you reinstall Lion on a new Mac that shipped with OS X Lion installed, on an erased or replaced hard drive, you can download iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand from the Mac App Store.

1. After installation, start from Lion.
2. Double-click the App Store icon in the dock.
3. Enter your Apple ID and password.
4. Click Purchases.
5. If you haven't previously accepted your bundled iLife applications
within the Mac App Store, you should see your iLife applications
appear in the Accept portion of the screen. Click Accept.
6. You may be asked for your Apple ID and password once again. Your
iLife applications now move to the Purchased section. These
applications are part of the software that came with your Lion based
computer. Your account will not be charged for them. Click Install
to compete installation of your applications.

The problem is, iLife isn't showing at all. I don't see any "Accept portion of the screen" and it's only the purchases I have made that shows. I have registered when the install completed.

Any ideas on how I can redeem my "included" copy of iLife?

 

[vinodh]

What I figured out with iLife is that if you install the DVD version and update it, it adds itself to you officially purchased list of apps from the Mac App Store. You can then get rid of the DVD and always have iLife linked to you Apple ID for download from that point on. I recently formatted my MacBook twice and re-installed iLife from the App store, for free, even though I originally had the DVD version.

Unfortunately, this did NOT work with iWork.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Thanks vinodh,

I ended up phoning Apple, and they told me the same thing. I didn't link the pre-installed iLife with my account in the App Store, and that's why it's not showing up. They don't seem to have a way to add it, so the support guy ordered a DVD copy for me - should be in the post in a few days.