GarageBand '08 version 4.1 won't open. It tries then quits unexpectedly.

try creating a new user account and test GB from there.

Sometimes a corrupt .band file could be causing the trouble. An error with GarageBand is that it opens the last file used, and if it is corrupt, it will try opening the corrupt file every time. Try finding other .band files you have saved and launch them instead.

Try moving GarageBand to a remote folder and reinstalling. If it appears again, you got the right one. Also check the version number. That will tell you more than the date it was modified.

GB 4's first build was apparently march of '06

how do i delete that? i had melodyne installed, and just spotlighted 'melodyne' and deleted all associated files, but still doesn't work. if i spotlight 'rewire', i get nothing. what should i do?

thanks in advance!

hi Bryan - got the same situation w Melodyne here...where did you locate
the ReWire driver you deleted, to make GB startup successfully...?

best, michael

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Hi,
Same problem here.
Both Garageband and Logic Express won't load anymore since I installed a couple of audio plugins by Waves. I've already deleted, reinstalled, deleted etc. A couple of times, but to no avail.
Read on the Logic-discussion part of this forum that ReWire doesn't work with Leopard.
I've tried to remove everything associated with the new plugin, but Im obviously missing something.
Help 😟

I had the same problem Try this, it's melodyne causing all the trouble anything that say MelodyneRewireDevice, just delete it anywhere you see it

http://www.celemony.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?p=9807#9807

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I just figured out this problem and thought I would provide the exact location of the problem file. Celemony's Melodyne Uno running (or not running for that matter) in Leopard was the problem for me.

Go to: Macintosh HD/Library/Applications Support and remove MelodyneUnoRewireDevice (which is an alias).
Then go to: Macintosh HD/Library/Applications Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/ and remove both of the Melodyne components there. You don't need to remove the other ReWire components.

You may also need to go to: Home/Library/Preferences and remove MelodyneUno Preferences.

Note: you probably won't have to remove the Uno application from the applications folder if you want to wait for an update.

bryanmurphy14, I take my hat off to you, sir! You've saved me a lot of trouble.
not only is Garageband working but so also are Ableton Live 7 and Riffworks.
Before I installed Leopard on my Mac I tested it by loading it on a LaCie firewire
hard drive.I tried a few aps including Live and Riffworks and was happy with the result so I upgraded Tiger and lo ! neither would launch.So I knew one of the applications on my mac was the problem. But which one? I googled the Garageband problem as I figured I'd get a better response. And so it was! I had already begun to uninstall some of them but you've saved from having yo do all of them. Since I bought Melodyne as a download it would have been the last one I would've tried.
I now have OS X Tiger on my LaCie drive and can use Melodyne there without any problems (and also ProTools while I wait for a fix from Digidesign.

Cheers

Wow! I was totally sceptical this was going to work -- my GarageBand 4.1.1 had also stopped working since upgrading to OS X 10.5.2, producing a crash on application start-up after a long initialization delay of each of my SW synths. I stumbled across this thread...

I didn't have a Melodyne installation to the best of my knowledge, but I did nonetheless find two components per beansupreme's post, in my Macintosh HD/Library/Applications Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/. Once I relocated those, GarageBand started straight up with no issues!

THANKS!!