LiveType won't open

Hi Nick-
I did repair permissions. Still no-go on Live Type. I'm using FCP 6.0.1. Can't open LiveType, so to confirm version number, I navigated to it and finder, ctrl-click on icon and selected "get info" then computer froze again for a good 5 minutes. Finally, it unfroze with info open, and I noticed that I am running 2.1.3 for LiveType. Really strange stuff here. Also, when I open Motion, I also freeze for a minute or two, but Motion does ultimately open.

PS - I've also tried to open LiveType under other users on this computer, in case it was a User preferences issue, but this seems to happen across the board. Thanks.

More info. I've also noticed that if I cmd-tab back across Finder and still had the "Info" pane open for Live Type, that my computer freezes upon landing on that "Info" pane. Even without being open, anything associated to LT is freezing me temporarily...

Hello-
Thanks for the response. I've just logged in for the day and tried to open LiveType. This log is relatively short because of that. Note that there seems to be a couple of errors even before I tried to launch Live Type - but I don't know what any of this means. After the line "Debugger () was called!" is where I tried to launch LiveType. It seems there is some kind of Library issue? Again, pretty ignorant on this stuff, so anyone who can read a log and guide me on possible fixes, it is much appreciated. Here is the log:

Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2009-03-21 08:41:05 -0400
2009-03-21 08:41:05.349 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
2009-03-21 08:41:05.450 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
2009-03-21 08:41:05.451 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
2009-03-21 08:41:05.932 loginwindow[69] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath: Please instantiate the QApplication object first
SharedMemoryShellInterface::launchMonitor()
2009-03-21 08:41:17.787 SystemUIServer[201] lang is:en
Monitor::Monitor()
Monitor::initialize
Monitor::loadDeviceHooks()
Registering monitor hook.
Registering monitor hook.
Registering monitor hook.
Registering monitor hook.
Registering monitor hook.
Debugger() was called!
dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/AEProfiling.framework/Versions/A/AEProfiling
Referenced from: /Applications/LiveType.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveType
Reason: image not found
Mar 21 08:48:37 David-Desrochers-Computer-2 crashdump[228]: LiveType crashed
Mar 21 08:48:37 David-Desrochers-Computer-2 crashdump[228]: crash report written to: /Users/daviddesrocher/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/LiveType.crash.log

Thank you Jon. I'm going to try option 3 later today (beautiful Saturday here in New England). I'll report back results.

Quick question. I upgraded to current version of FC Studio in fall of last year. I presume that the LiveType associated disc on this is all I need (along with old version serial numbers, etc.) and that I don't need to reinstall using my old original discs from 2003, right?


Thanks

Hi Jon-
Thanks again for the advice. I did as instructed and downloaded that app, selected only Application and Receipts, removed it and rebooted (which it instructed me to do after removal). Then I put the DVD in for FCS install and LiveType was the only thing not grayed out. I went through process of installing it with no issue, then, when I got to the install place where it said something about "installation scripts for Live Type" (or something like that), my computer got hung up completely. After about 5 minutes I had to hold power button in to restart. Tried something again, and again had the same results. Any advice on next steps?

This is not working for me. There is something really funky going on with Live Type. I removed the other components and go to delete out of Trash and I get hung up even doing that. Something is corrupt here.

Now, even FCP is messed up. If I click the icon in the dock, I get the semi-transparent question mark over it, and I did NOT remove FCP when I removed Live Type via that app.

Is there any way for me to "revert" to a previous configuration of my computer? I've never had to do something that extreme before, but I'd like to try that. Alternatively, I think I need to wipe out FCS and reinstall completely or something. Thoughts?

Okay. Here is what I got when doing "Verify Disk." What can I do? Will a clean install repair this disk. Any advice is appreciated.

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair