MacOS – Removed Facetime – how to recover

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So I got this weird situation probably because of my own stupidity. But here goes: I am on Lion (10.7.3) and decided to install FaceTime from the App Store. When trying to install the App Store app says that I need to move current FaceTime.app to trash. When trying to do so the OS says that I cannot remove FaceTime app since it's required by OS. Being confused I open the terminal and go all sudo rm -fr on FaceTime.app. Getting back to App Store I try to install the FaceTime again, but this time I get message saying that MAS version of FaceTime is too old for my OS.

So basically my question boils down to – how do I get my FaceTime app back?

Best Answer

Getting the FaceTime.app file from your backup or another machine with the same OS version should work.