iMovie Not Responding in Lion

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newtomac2008 Author

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iMovie Not Responding in Lion

When I first start up iMovie 11 it seems to load up fine with all my projects and photos listed. But as soon as I choose any of my projects to start working on I get the 'spinning beach ball' that spins forever. I have recently updated to Lion and when I updated to iMovie 11 and didn't have any issues like this before. Now suddenly the process is not responding in the Activity Monitor (see snapshot below). Do I need to uninstall iMovie, if so how and how do I make sure I backup the right files? Any help someone out there can provide would be much appreicated:

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iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7), iMovie not loading under Lion

Posted on Aug 21, 2011 12:36 PM

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Answer 1

wible4

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Aug 21, 2011 1:36 PM in response to newtomac2008

I have the same problem with OS X 10.6.8. I cannot even get to the help file to try anything there.

I hope someone has a procedure to do a rebuild without losing all my videos!

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calbe

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Aug 21, 2011 2:53 PM in response to newtomac2008

It sounds as if perhaps one of the projects may be "corrupted."

Try moving the contents of ~/movies/imovie projects/ to a temporary folder to see if you can get iMovie stable. Then systematically move them back.

It could also possibly be the ~/movies/imovie events/ as well.

From my experience, I have encountered more causes from the project library than the event library.

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wible4

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Aug 21, 2011 6:00 PM in response to calbe

Thank you calbe. It was as you suggested. It was difficult to rid the file as the loading phase wanted to keep running.

wible

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calbe

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Aug 21, 2011 7:35 PM in response to wible4

wible4 wrote:

Thank you calbe. It was as you suggested. It was difficult to rid the file as the loading phase wanted to keep running.

wible

My pleasure! Glad it worked!

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SanXa85

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Sep 12, 2011 12:49 PM in response to calbe

I had the same problem and your suggestion helped me to fix it. Thanks a million!

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Sep 19, 2011 7:48 AM in response to newtomac2008

Didn't help me. I had to go into my ~/Library directory and trash some iMovie preferences. I removed a folder at the Library level. Also some com.apple.imovie* files from Preferences. And the iMovie folder from Application Support.

Hope that helps someone.

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Sep 25, 2011 11:05 PM in response to calbe

calbe wrote:

wible4 wrote:

Thank you calbe. It was as you suggested. It was difficult to rid the file as the loading phase wanted to keep running.

wible

My pleasure! Glad it worked!

I had the same problem and now resolved, thank you

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May 4, 2012 1:39 PM in response to calbe

My imovie has been playing up all day, have been having to force close it. My Uni deadline is on tuesday and I am so close to finishing so its very frustrating. One of my projects seems to be ok so what you said about the corrupt file could be right. I have removed it from imovie projects and imovies now seems to be ok, however I need to work on this project, is there anyway to uncorrupt it?! Thanks.

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