iMovie error -49

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iMovie error -49

I am struggling to share an iMovie project with iTunes as every time the process is near finishing I get an error -49. I am tried several things within iMovie including copying the project, starting a new project and copying the files into the new projects.

I am have also tried repairing permissions as suggested in other discussions but still I get the error.

I have been able to share the project as smaller file type for mobile phones but when I try the HD 720 option, the error apears. I have plenty of disk space. Any help would be much appreciated.

Macbbook Pro

Posted on Oct 28, 2011 6:55 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 28, 2011 9:33 AM in response to HamishC

do you export to an external harddrive?

is, e.g. as an iTunes Sever, somehow a NAS involved in your set-up?

do you store any material on a connected Time Capsule as 'wireless harddrive'?

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Oct 28, 2011 9:38 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

I am trying to share to the local hard drive. I do not have a NAS drive attached to the network just now but have done on the past.

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Oct 28, 2011 9:42 AM in response to HamishC

HamishC wrote:

… I do not have a NAS drive attached to the network just now but have done on the past.

iM gets a bit iffy when content comes (or goes) to NAS-drives.

on another board, a -49-prob was solved when e.g. music-tracks from the iT-Lib was copied from the NAS to the local drive and THOSE used in iMovie.

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Oct 28, 2011 9:45 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

All of my iTunes data has been running smoothly for several months, so I do not think the NAS drive is the issue

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Oct 28, 2011 10:13 AM in response to HamishC

HamishC wrote:

.. .so I do not think the NAS drive is the issue

I intentionally used the word 'iffy' ... can work, can not work .. 🙂

give it a try, do a quick test with a duplicate of your original Project, swap 'NAS'-files with local ones .....

==edit==

do you export to 'Desktop' or to some folder ... ?

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HamishC Author

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Oct 28, 2011 10:15 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

Maybe not making myself clear but all files in the project are on the local drive. NAS drive is not used or attached in anyway.

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Dec 8, 2011 7:18 AM in response to HamishC

Turn TimeMachine off and retry the export.

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iDVE

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Dec 31, 2011 4:52 AM in response to HamishC

i've got some problem (export HD 1080p movie) after install MacFuse and NTFS drivers, now i'll try remove ntfs

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Morez

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Mar 4, 2012 11:03 PM in response to HamishC

Hi

I have a same problem.

Export .mov or HD 1080 after 6/7 hours work error 49.....

I see

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3163357?answerId=15568720022#15568720022

Can you help me?

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Morez

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Mar 4, 2012 11:08 PM in response to HamishC

Hi

FYI

http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2012/02/23/imovie-not-completing.html

Bye

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Answer 11

Jun 9, 2012 3:30 AM in response to oliverweedon

Turn the time machine off. It will work. Try it.

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FrankVH

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Jul 16, 2012 11:49 AM in response to chengke_leo

I agree. With OSX 10.7.4 and iMovie '11 I finally managed to create a 42 minute project in 720p only after I switched off Time Macine. Thanks to chengke_leo.

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Answer 13

Sep 16, 2012 5:08 AM in response to HamishC

I had this problem.

Annoying, when the problem appears at the end af several hours work.

Thanks to this thread and no less chengke_leo, 90 min project was easely made after switching off TimeMashine.

Running OS10.7.4 iMovie 9.0.8 (1778)

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