Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
iMovie won't open properly. I tried reinstalling it and it still won't open. Any ideas? I attached a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about.
MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I had that problem also, but for some reason a few hours later it re-opened fine I dunno how
It might be worth trying to launch again with the Console app running. The messages there might give some clues to the problem. Whether imovie(and FCP 10.1) will launch seems to be very sensitive to minor problems in one's user configuration and any one of these can stall the startup and results in a hang. I have had this problem from time to time and each time it has eventually resolved itself .
Recently my iMovie 10 and FCP10.1 would not launch after updating to OS10.9.3. Sometime later I launched Excel and it reported some font-related activity. After that both could launch normally again. I also suspect that the SIMBL enabler, needed for useful system hacks, may sometimes play a role though not always since I have it installed and can usually run iMovie without problems.
I think its very unlikely that the actual iMovie application will get corrupted and the fact that it will usually launch when one boots as a guest proves this (a guest account will be 'clean').
Geoff.
27/05/14 19:18:32,173 iMovie[328]: Could not find image named '7F966C8D-418D-4C52-AEFB-2D79E62891BF'.
27/05/14 19:18:32,173 iMovie[328]: Could not find image named '41D5459D-E1BC-42EB-98D0-4D869675F009'.
27/05/14 19:18:32,174 iMovie[328]: Could not find image named '5924A8AF-43E5-4311-94CA-8E074F69A928'.
27/05/14 19:18:33,512 iMovie[328]: *** -[__NSSetM addObject:]: object cannot be nil
27/05/14 19:18:46,227 mds[61]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7fe6530d4000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.akuMF9
27/05/14 19:21:40,034 Console[363]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
27/05/14 19:21:48,602 iMovie[366]: Could not find image named '7F966C8D-418D-4C52-AEFB-2D79E62891BF'.
27/05/14 19:21:48,603 iMovie[366]: Could not find image named '41D5459D-E1BC-42EB-98D0-4D869675F009'.
27/05/14 19:21:48,603 iMovie[366]: Could not find image named '5924A8AF-43E5-4311-94CA-8E074F69A928'.
27/05/14 19:21:49,754 iMovie[366]: *** -[__NSSetM addObject:]: object cannot be nil
This is what I get when I try to open iMovie. I also tried deleting the prefecences and it didn't change anything.
It evidently starts writing the window (as shown in your screen shot) but then has trouble finding some files. I don't know what these files are since the absolute hex addresses are not very informative.
Try launching imovie while holding down the 'alt' key. You should get a window asking which library you want to open, but it also offers to create a new one (button "New....). Press this an create a new library. If the problem is in your exisiting library then imovie will not try to load it and it may start up OK. If you have more than one library you could then try opening a different one from the one giving problems. If all is well you then could try opening the problem library and try to find which event is causing the problem.
Geoff.
just did it and it worked great thanks Geoff
I tried to create a new one and it didn't work so I deleted my iMovie Library and then launched iMovie while holding the alt key and created a new library. Now it works. Thank you!
dumb question,
What is a Console App?
Applications / Utilities / Console.app
It shows all system messages in real time.
(Though it sounds like it, its not for comforting those whose iMovie is not working đ)
Geoff
thanks for the information!
iMovie won't open properly
