How to install EOS Utility if you lost the disk…

Great, the Technicolor profile is now available (Read Vincent quick review)! The only problem is that you need to have EOS Utility installed on your computer. If you are like me, you threw the Canon CD away as soon as you opened you 5DMrkII box. No problem you think, I just have to download the app from the Canon site. Problem is that Canon is only providing an updater, not an installer. Basically this means that you can only update your app, not install it.

Solution for  OS X users

Follow these easy steps to transform the updater into an installer:

Newest versions might not work, so you might give this a try:
Download the appropriate files from Canon for your camera and follow steps:

Files you downloaded are compressed as “.zip” or “.gz” files
Double click on the file and it will expand to the disk image file extension “.dmg”
Click on that image file, it will mount it as disk
We should copy (extract) UpdateInstaller to our disk
Eject disk image
We will modify UpdateInstaller
Click on UpdateInstaller and go to “Show Package Contents”
It will open new window with Contents
Navigate to Contents/Resources and find the SDI.bundle file.
Click on the SDI.bundle and ‘Show Package Contents’ again
Now navigate to Contents/Resources and locate a file called update.plist
Delete update.plist file
Close opened windows and run UpdateInstaller it should install now!

Note: Once you made this, no need to do it over again for new updated versions of Software.

Older solution:

Download the EOS Updater (5D Mark II)
Open the file and copy the ‘updateinstaller’ file on your desktop
Right-click on the file and select ‘show package contents’
Browse to content/resources
Right-click on the file ‘SDI.bundle’ and select ‘show package contents’
Browse the content/resources
Delete update.plist
Close all the windows and double click the installer.

Solution for Widnows users

If you want EOS Utility on Windows 7 and you lost disk, you could try to download DPP that should work without any modifications here,
or if it doesn’t work follow modifications that you need to do:

Open Notepad and copy/paste or write:

You could insert only keys for software you want to install, rest is not needed, but no harm to put it all at once.
Pick to save as All Files from drop down (*.*). Save file as CanonPreInstall.reg, you can as well save as *.txt and then rename, be sure you have option to see extension turned on. Run it (double click or right mouse click “Merge”), confirm it !
After that you can run DPP update that you downloaded from official Canon site.

For older windows registry looks like this:

That is it, if you found any issues, problems, feel free to comment, thanks.