Close App Store, uninstall the app (by drag-and-drop to the Trash),Īnd then open again the App Store, go to "Purchases", and click on.Click on "Update", and while it will not let you do it, it will list the app on "Purchases".
Open the App Store, the app should appear on "Updates". Add the iMovie.app to the mac's Applications folder (by copy/paste). Open the folder, and you'll find iMovie.app within a folder called. Should be expanded in a folder called "Payload2". RightĬlick and then click on "Show Package Contents". In the new folder created, there is a new 9.0.9Update.pkg file. Go to Terminal and execute the following: pkgutil -expand įor example: pkgutil -expand /Volumes/iMovie\ 9.0.9Update.pkg /Users/name/Desktop/iMovie Inside it you'll find a "iMovie 9.0.9Update.pkg" I managed to install the latest version that my OS was able to run (Sierra), through the App Store. I have a number of other downloaded but not installed upgrades in my queue. I clicked upgrade and it downloaded, but requires a restart that I haven't done yet. When I went back to App Store it gave the option of Upgrade instead of Get. I installed iMovie 9 twice as a matter of verifying the script above. I had opened App Store to iMovie 10 before installing iMovie 9. Some things that may or may not be important (i.e. I don't know if this is perfectly reproducible, but I know that I just did it and it worked on my machine. Open App Store, go to "Purchases" tab and click "Install" (You should see iMovie with button upgrade, If you don't see you should Check whether your App Store contains iMovie in tab "Purchased" In case when you can not upgrade iMovie because of information: "your system can not meet minimum system requirements" : # 1. Go into the App Store, see that the option now says "Upgrade". Mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload\ 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie\ 9.0.9.app Move `iMovie.app` to the `Applications` folder 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 I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and the App Store just let me upgrade iMovie a moment ago. 
It turns out that if you have iMovie 9, the App Store will allow you to upgrade to iMovie 10 without the normal checks.
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