[MacDV] Re: Can't save iMovie 3.03 Projects

[Carlton Kelly]

Thanks for the advice, although I'm still in the same boat -- my copy 
of iMovie seems to be corrupted. I looked in the Console app and this 
is the error message recorded whenever iMovie attempts to save the 
Project file:

FSpExchangeFiles failed; Project not saved! (-50)

I've tried searching on Google and Apple Support but all of the 
references seem to be targeted to developers and how their applications 
should handle the condition., i.e. there's not much I can do about it.

I suppose the only thing left to try would be to reinstall iMovie. I'm 
not sure how to go about doing that...

Carl

On Jan 2, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Peter van der Linden wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Carlton Kelly wrote:
>
>> the iMovie Project File is created at Project creation (as it should 
>> be), but is never successfully updated by the iMovie Application. It 
>> always contains 0 bytes.
>
> If you can create the empty file OK, then it is probably not a 
> permissions problem.
> It indicates that all the directories in the path are accessible to 
> you.
> Just to be sure, after the project file is created, and before writing 
> to it, in a terminal window do:
>
>        chmod 777 your-file
>        ls -l  your-file
>
> where "your-file" is the file in question.
> The "ls" should show you as the owner of the file, and permissions of 
> "rwxrwxrwx"
>
> Are you trying to do something as a different user to the one who owns 
> that directory?
>
> You could try running the iMovie process under ktrace, and look to see 
> if any of the system calls fail, particularly write.  Look for lines 
> like this:
>   6000 find     CALL  write(0x1,0xd000,0x14)
>   6000 find     GIO   fd 1 wrote 20 bytes
>        "./frompc/work/a.exe
>        "
>   6000 find     RET   write 20/0x14
>
> but with an error indication, i.e. the Generic I/O (GIO) asked it to 
> write non-zero number of bytes, and the RET showed it wrote zero.    
> man ktrace, man kdump has more info on this utility.
>
> I don't really know what the problem is, but ktrace will tell you what 
> the app is trying to do.
>
>     Peter
>
>
>
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