IDVD project locked

I recently redid my harddrive and I just now tried to reinstall it, but the massive amounts of problems I'm having with that are for another time. My project in iDVD is locked and I can't access it. MY OWN PROGRAM LOCKED ITSELF!!!!! Please help, I need this done within hours. Please anything!

Hi BlindLuck
Welcome to apple discussions. Please explain what you mean by "redid my hard drive". Exactly how did you redo your HDD? Did you use Time Machine? Or do you mean you cloned it using Carbon Copy or SuperDuper and now cannot access a specific iDvd project file? We need more details and exactly which steps were taken to recover your data. Did you happen to change any user accounts or passwords along the way? If so, we need to know this as well.
You can try the following if all else fails:
Control-click on the project in the Finder to show the contents. Open the resources folder and delete 'project.lock' file. Hope that helps but if not just come on back.
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IDVD Project Locked. wont let me open.

I recently wiped my partition and reinstalled all my apps.
And when I reloaded the OS I used a different name.
However when I try to open a certain iDVD project I get this message
"The project Bday Pool Party Sleepover 2009
is locked by the user xxxxxx (user ID 501):
2009-08-26 16:48:09 -0400.
The project can't be opened at this time".
However Im able to open other iDVD projects I created under
the same previous user name but not this one.
And this is my home computer and no one else has access to it.
And I never locked or password protected it in iDVD if thats even possible.
Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

To quote Rich839:
I would start with deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist found in User(the house icon)/Library/Preferences. iDVD will replace that file on relaunch. To do a permissions repair, open Disk Utility found in Applications/Utilities. Select your hard drive icon displayed at the top of the left hand pane, and then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait a few minutes while permissions are repaired, and when finished, launch iDVD and see if you still have the problem.
Last suggestion: Try adding a new user account with the authors name of the original iDvd project file.
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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IDVD Project locked ownership on different mac?

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IDVD project locked by another user

Hi all!
I have recently changed the hard drive of my iBook.
All projects were on an external firewire drive.
After installing the system, i tried to reopen one of my project, and get the message (translated from french) :
"Project locked by another user
The project xyz was locked by the user Phil (501) + time and date of the probable last save". It must be refering to the user of my old system.
How do i get to reopen this project?
OK sorry I have found the answer : needed to delete a file called project.lock and i was up and running

Needed to delete a file within the project called "Project.lock"

Can't open iDVD project

Help needed
I had account for my niece and she was playing with iDVD creating her own projects. After I have reinstalled everything, I created account for her with different name and none of her projects open anymore!
The error is "Project locked by other user"
How I can open it?
Thanks.

Hi Ramerez:
There is a file called Project.lock in the iDVD Project bundle that is preventing you from opening the project.
You can delete it by right clicking (Control/click)on your DVD project and selecting "Show Package Contents".
Go to the Contents/Resources folder and drag the project.lock file to the trash.
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Error mesage: Project locked by other user?

Hello,
I just re-opened my external hard drive after a month vacation from it and tried to open my IDVD file only to get an error message:
Project locked by other user:
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I went into the file's "get info" and unlocked everything to no avail. I'm puzzled. I have never seen this before. Any help would be great.
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Jordan

Control click on the icon of your external drive and select Get Info. Check the box that says, "Ignore Ownership on this Volume." See if that solves it.
Make sure that your hard drive is formatted for Apple. Should be Mac OS extended or Mac OS extended (journaled). But if you reformat, be sure to first move your data to another drive, because reformatting will erase all data on the drive.
If that doesn't work, use the Disk Utility app on your Mac to do a permissions repair on both your startup drive and your external drive.

Project Locked by Other User! But it's me!

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<OK>"
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Take a look at: If your archived project can’t be used by others at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6719.html

Difficulty burning iDVD project to disc

Help - My first try, and I'm tossing wrecked discs like frisbees! I've put together a lovely set of slideshows with soundtracks and set up an iDVD project to my liking (using a supplied theme), but can't get it to burn to DVD. I've checked out the burner by burning a DVD with a few BG's of compressed movies from iTunes (I needed to make some room anyway). I also managed to save my project as a .img file, which plays fine on the DVD player.
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Thanks, F Shippey -
I tried burning the .img file, through the Finder (is that the same as doing it through Disk Utility? Probably not, but D.U. was not interested... see below) - didn't want to even start. So I found a DVD-RW disc - at first D.U. wouldn't erase it (unspecified error). Stubborn soul that I am, it finally worked the third time (ok I also rebooted in between). A direct burn of the .img file went through, but wasn't readable as a DVD (the player knew there were some mp3's on it somewhere...). So I erased it again, and tried a burn direct through the iDVD again. Success! And when it got done, it asked if I wanted to do another, so what the heck, I threw in one of the DVD-R discs - a new one off the spindle - and that worked too.
When I look at ANY of these discs on Disk Utility they all seem to say they're not writable when I choose the Information tab, even if they're identified as DVD-RW (Locked: Yes, Writable: No"). And yet, then they go on to be writable after all. That isn't right, is it?
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Project locked permission madness

OK, I reformatted my entire drive (I was having all kinds of crashing and preference corruption and got fed up). Anyway...
I then restored the contents of the old Movies folder (From Time Machine) to the newly formatted drive with new accounts (and new account names). Using the Get Info window, I have been able to fix the permissions on 3 out of 4 iDVD projects (part of an entire set I edited).
However, there is one project which will not open at all. I've made sure the permissions to Read & Write for ALL accounts on my machine: 3 plus "everyone" and "system."
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Project Locked by Other User
The project PRTPRB001 is locked by the user administrator (user ID 504): 2009-06-07 10:19:47 -0500.
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I had this same error for the other projects. By changing permissions as described above, I eliminated the error and can open and save. It's driving me crazy why I cannot do this with this one project. Does anyone know what could be the solution?

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open up Toast 7, click on Video tab, click on Image File and drag your img. file to Toast.
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"Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with _*this unit?*_"
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Need this info so that the knowledgeable users can provide you with the proper troubleshooting solution(s).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301724-en How to identify your iMac
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh355.html Getting information about your computer
You can have this info displayed on the bottom of every post by going to 'My Settings' which is located in the column on the right under your name, and filling in the information asked for.
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