iMOVIE Error (-49)

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iMOVIE Error (-49)

When exporting a 1080p movie from iMovie using the Share option after waiting 2 hrs the message "Unable to prepare project for publishing - The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-49)."

I have managed to export the smaller 'Large' size very quickly, and the 2 hrs time that iMovie takes is correctly counted down to 'less than a minute' until the error message is posted.

System memory still seems ok, its only towards the end it drops to 800ish mb.

Is there an error code list I am missing?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Mark

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 1.8 Ghz Intel Core i7 4GB DDR3

Posted on Oct 16, 2012 4:19 PM

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Oct 16, 2012 11:14 PM in response to Wallo69

Hi

Error -49opWrErr File already open with write permission

Trash the preference files while application is NOT Running.

from Karsten Schlüter

Some users notice on exporting larger projects from within iMovie that this operation is aborted with an 'error -49'

This issue occours only on MacOs machines using 10.7x

try switching-off the Local Mobile Backup

in Terminal copy/paste

sudo tmutil disablelocal

Re-launch Mac

Yours Bengt W

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