8.0.5 crashes when events selected...

Question

Hi all, and thank you in advance!
I have read, I believe all the threads I could relating to iMovie crashes, and tried everything but an OS re-install :/ Anyway, the problem just started today for some reason: The default selection in the Event Library is "iPhoto Video". When I select any of the "New Events", all appears OK, until I 1. try to do ANYTHING with a selected event, or 2. highlight another New Event. I eventually get the beachball and the resulting log which Apple's forum server WON'T allow me to post (size??).
Anyway, I have tried: cleaning up my disk by verifying and/or repairing permissions and the disk itself, removing Flip4Mac and other components from the QuickTime library (except for the two Apple codecs), ensured everything was up to date, removed iMove preference files, and re-installed iMovie...all to no avail. I can post bits and pieces of the error log I am sure, but not the whole thing at once…ideas?
This is all particularly humbling since my wife is a dedicated Windows user and finds this very entertaining. For this and other reasons, I would appreciate any and all help, and will build a small shrine to whom solves this puzzle. MMM

Answer 1

Hi
How about Perian - some versions seems problematic.
Program Updates under Apple menu - updated ?
else
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. *com.apple.iMovie.plist *
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
iMovie updated ?
QuickTime updated ?
Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
Yours Bengt W