Open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip Unpack `Payload.zip` (it will get named `Payload 2`) Mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip Pkgutil -expand /Volumes/iMovie\ 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/ Download the iMovie 9.0.9 update packageĬurl '' -o ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg You have to do some of these steps from the command line, so you might as well do all of them from the command line to make it faster and less error prone: # 1. mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload\ 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie\ 9.0.9.appĮnjoy! Command line Instructions (for Terminal.app).open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip.mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip.pkgutil -expand /Volumes/iMovie\ 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/.
It just takes a little know-how and elbow grease to liberate it. It turns out that the full iMovie 9 app is included with the freely available iMovie 9.0.9 'update'.
