An error occurred while exporting the slide show

Question

This error has been talked about ever since iPhoto 5. It is usually rectified by having a Movies folder in the home directory.
I have iPhoto 6.06 and am trying to export into iMovie 6.03. The exporting process goes through its paces but produces the error at the end. I do have a Movies folder in my home directory; the exporting process does even create a file called .mov in the Movies folder, and if I try to export again with the same file name it claims that the file exists, and do I want to replace it? Yet, Quicktime Player 7.4.5 cannot open it and claims that it is not a movie file. What is going on here? ANy help very appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Terence,
thanks for the fast turnaround. I had already trashed the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file several times before. I don't think the problem is with Quicktime, since the error message occurs in iPhoto. I checked Permissions; there were a few problems with Flash, which I corrected, but nothing with iPhoto or Quicktime. I tried exporting the slide show again and got this in the Console Log:
Permissions repair complete
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume
slideshow max texture size 1536
2008-05-26 19:40:32.746 iPhoto[275] Slideshow movie export failed with error code -47."
Unfortunately my MacBook is a work machine and I am not its administrator, so Icannot create a new account. This will have to wait until I get back into Uni this week.
By the way, iDVD imports the slide show correctly, but as far as I know I then cannot add commentary to it. That's why I want to go through iMovie, so that I can record my own voice commentary before it goes into iDVD.
If you have any more ideas let me know. Otherwise I'll see my administrator in the next days and hand the problem to her. I'll let you know th outcome then.
Matt