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Garage Band '08 crashing at startup

when i first installed ilife '08 yesterday, neither iDVD or garage band would start without crashing. Oddly Garage Band will work fine if i switch to another user (and I figured out how to fix iDVD myself, by dragging the "installed themes" folder to the trash).

So now everything is working, except Garage Band will only work for my "other" user.

Any ideas?

Message was edited by: David Yellen

20" Intel Imac / 15" Aluminum Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 8, 2007 3:08 PM

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Aug 8, 2007 4:27 PM in response to David Yellen

holy crap, applecare just called back, three days earlier than they said they would, and had me try dragging the "audio" folder out of my user library, and the "garage band" folder out of my application support folder; but no fix.

I mentioned your plug-in theory, so they're gonna look into that too.

At least they seem to be on top of things a lot better this time around. i remember iLife '06 being nightmareish at first

Aug 9, 2007 8:52 AM in response to HangTime

I am having the same issue. The most frustrating thing is, I bought/installed iLife '08 right after spending the day doing a complete, clean reinstsall of my system. Ergo, not only have I gone through the regimen of the trashed prefs, permission repairs (Disk Utility and Disk Warrior), and zapped pram, but my Photo album is empty, my Music folder is empty and my Movies folder is empty.

In other words, for all intents and puposes I have an iLife Mac going here with nothing that (theoretically) should be standing in the way of Garage Band launching, and yet...it bounces in the Dock and then tells me "GB unexpectedly quit."

I look forward to someone coming up with something here.

thanks for listening

alan b

Garage Band '08 crashing at startup

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