Garageband crashes a few seconds after launch

Question

Hello, I am using Garageband 3.0.2 and recently whenever I launch garageband, select to make a new podcast episode or movie score Garageband unexpectedly quits about 10 seconds into the session. The application doesn't go away but just hangs, and the "unexpectedly quit" dialog comes up, but clicking close won't close garageband in this state, I have to force quit it to make it go away. I have tried garageband under a different account and it works fine. But I want to know why it won't work for my primary account. I have tried deleting Garageband, and all associated files I can find, plists, demo tracks, etc. but still crashes even after a fresh install, and still after I apply the most recent update. Does anyone have any advice I can use?
Thank you!

Answer 1

D.amn, I hate it when GB acts up like this. I had a similar situation whereby it'd just hang at the initializing phase.
I did everything possible to get it running again, but the sad fact is that I had to do an OS reinstallation.
I hope you don't have to go down that same path I did.