[MacDV] iMovie won't open or reinstall

[James Asherman]

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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