[MacDV] iMovie won't open or reinstall

[Neil Poese]

Great suggestions, I'll work on that today! At least if the blizzard 
lets-up and I can get to school.  :-)

Thanks,
Neil Poese
Palmer High School
Colorado Springs

James Asherman wrote:

> You might try getting hold of a maintenance utility like Cocktail or 
> System OptimizerX
> ( try http://macupdate.com/utilities.php  )
> Then use one of these to run  a "prebinding" and then fix permissions.
> This could really help.
> You could also open System profiler, read the logs and try to see why 
> it's crashing.
> Jim
>
> On Apr 10, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Neil Poese wrote:
>
>> I'm teaching in a high school video lab on eMacs running 10.2.8 and 
>> 10.3.8 and iMovie 4. After the students finished importing QT.DV 
>> files from external hard drives and editing their show, they closed 
>> iMovie and then it wouldn't reopen. I transfered the file to a second 
>> machine, iMovie opened OK, but then it wouldn't reopen after being 
>> closed. After exporting the file to QT.DV I was able import the file 
>> into a third machine (and transmit the show to a waiting audience of 
>> 2000 kids).
>>
>> To fix the two machines that won't open iMovie any more, I tried 
>> dragging the iMovie icon out of the App folder and then doing a 
>> custom reinstall, but the check-mark for iMovie wasn't even available 
>> on the custom install window. I then reinstalled the OS and did a 
>> clean install of the iLife suite, but I still can't get the machine 
>> to open iMovie.
>>
>> Are there iMovie files that are hiding from me that, if deleted, 
>> would permit me to reinstall it? I'm looking at the prospect of 
>> wiping the drive clean and reinstalling everything - and I really 
>> would like to avoid that!
>>
>> BTW, I guess that I had some corrupt file in the iMovie project file 
>> - but I've been using iMovie since version 1, and this is first time 
>> that something like this has happened to me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Neil Poese
>>
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