GarageBand file crashes entire application, every time. How can I undo my last action so I can open it and export what I have?

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GarageBand file crashes entire application, every time. How can I undo my last action so I can open it and export what I have?

I have an ENTIRE song that I just finished, thought I would add a drum loop track just to see what it sounded like with my natrual acoustics.

Apparently that was an awful idea! Adding the track crashed the whole program, and no matter what actions I take I can't get that single file to reopen. I've checked all over the web for possible answers, but no one has ever gotten this particular problem figured out (from what I can find).

I don't want to overload you guys with all the raw error report data unless you need it, so just let me know if that's something I should bother to post!

Really, I just want a way to get rid of that one track, or "undo" my last action so that I can reopen the file and salvage the rest of my perfect song.

Thank you so much for helping out!

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Mar 12, 2013 4:39 PM

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therealanne Author

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Mar 12, 2013 4:43 PM in response to therealanne

Quick update, here's a pastebin link for the crash report (figured that's better than pasting it in here!).

http://pastebin.com/uXwZ99At

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léonie

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Mar 12, 2013 9:02 PM in response to therealanne

Your crashlog shows an "Bad Access" error.

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

That is very typical for corrupted media files. Is the last track you added a real-instrument track and you made an audio recording? Then it might help to remove the last added audio file from your GarageBand project.

Or do you have a TimeMachine backup, so that you could restore the last version of your project from the backup?

To remove an audio file from your GarageBand project ctrl-click the "xxxx.band" file of the song and select "Show Package Contents". Inside your package should be a folder called "Media" and it will contain your recordings as ".aiff" files, named like the tracks. Drag the newest ".aiff" to the Desktop and try to launch GB. You will probably get a warning about missing media - ignore it. Canyou launch GB this way?

Regards

Léonie

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