Help! Why is iMovie quitting unexpectedly? I've trashed the app and reinstalled/updated but it still quits.

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Help! Why is iMovie quitting unexpectedly? I've trashed the app and reinstalled/updated but it still quits.

This is the first part of the report that is shown:

Process: iMovie [278]

Path: /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie

Identifier: com.apple.iMovieApp

Version: 9.0.4 (1634)

Build Info: iMovieApp-16340000~2

Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [90]

Date/Time: 2011-11-26 12:23:22.673 -0700

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 84847 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 8

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 35 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 6

Anonymous UUID: 641A67AA-37D3-46C6-ADF5-CA0E2DF6F446

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iMovie was forced quit

Posted on Nov 26, 2011 11:36 AM

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Answer 1

elikness

Level 4

2,640 points

Nov 28, 2011 3:31 PM in response to bill from el paso

One thing you can try is find Disk Utility under the Utilitities folder inside your Applications Folder. Launch that program, then choose the option to Repair Disk Permissions. Then restart the Mac and try launching iMovie again. Failing that also try deleting the iMovie Preferences file:

Mac HD > Users > (your home folder) > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iMovieApp.plist

Move that file to the trash and restart iMovie and see if it crashes again.

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