"Illegal Sequence" message: GarageBand won't open, possibly due to corrupted files

GarageBand recently crashed while trying to save a particularly long composition, around 200 bars long at the time, but it's been laggy since it exceeded around 60 bars. Recently, while saving the song, the app suddenly crashed. Now, whenever I open the app, it attempts to load the song and a prompts me with a pop-up message that says "Illegal Sequence (1)" with the option to either "Repair" or "Quit." Neither option appears to have any effect, and after hitting either of them a few times, the app will crash again.
I have a feeling that some files have become corrupted, and I fear that I will not be able to recover this song. It's the only lengthy composition that I never backed up to iCloud, and I am beside myself for being so careless with a project that I have put over 48 hours into. If I could at least get GarageBand to open to the menu so that I can backup the song to iCloud or email it to myself, the problem would be virtually solved. Even if that didn't work, I could at least have some resolution.
I'm using GarageBand Version 1.4.1 (180.17) on an iPhone 4 running on iOS 6, because I'm one of those people who hated iOS 7 the moment I saw it and refused to update.
If anyone has any idea how to fix this, please help. This happened about an hour ago, and it is destroying me.

Hi,
I just had this same issue on my MacBook Pro. I was able to recover the real instrument audio that I had recorded and saved previously, but not the MIDI. Hopefully someone can help
Here's what happened: I was saving a composition of about 130 measures, and instead of saving, all of my recorded tracks went blank. They were still in the right places, but none of them made any sound when I hit play. I tried reverting to the saved version, but that just brought up a completely blank file. No recorded tracks, no instruments, nothing. [picture below]
I tried reopening the file, and I got the same message you did, "Illegal Sequence (1)" with options to 'Repair' or 'Quit'. Repair brought up the blank Garageband document as above. "Quit" made garageband crash, producing some sort of divide by zero error in com.apple.main, but my Garageband often crashes instead of quitting so that could be a separate issue.
However, I was able to recover all of the recorded audio that I had saved previously (!!). To anyone else out there with the same problem, just control-click on the damaged Garageband file and choose "Show Package Contents" from the drop down menu. You'll then see a folder with the components of the Garageband file. Any audio recordings you've made will be in the Media folder, and you can make a new Garageband file and drag and drop them in.
I haven't found where the MIDI sequences are stored, and I lost the last 15 minutes of audio I had recorded. Does anyone know if there's a way to recover them?
I'm using Garageband Version 6.0.5 (428.5) on a 13-inch late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.5
Thanks for any help anyone can give!

Similar Messages

HT201398 FaceTime & Messages now won't open on my iPad. Now no toggle switch in settings. Log in with my Apple ID sends activation error message 'try again'. Both Apps work on my iPhone & Mac.Any help?

FaceTime & Messages now won't open on my iPad. Now no toggle switch in settings. Log in with my Apple ID sends activation error message 'try again'. Both Apps work on my iPhone & Mac.Any help?

Adjusting the date or time didn't do anything for me either. I'm guessing my two options are to either do the full restore from scratch and not apply any backup ... Or possibly wait for an iOS update that might resolve this issue.
I'm not that much of an avid twitter user that I need it implemented natively in all my devices - so for now I'll probably value all my game save data, internal settings in apps e.t.c. over that functionality (or over the amount of work it would be to get me back to where I am now after a full wipe). I'll see what happens after the next iOS delta update. I'll reevaluate the full wipe after that if the issue hasn't been resolved

GarageBand won't open! I can't explain what happens, so here's a video I made of the issue...

GarageBand won't open! I can't explain what happens, so here's a video I made of the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUIwsDx7sr4
Please help! This is very important, as I work with music.

Hi Duckman,
I've asked for this thread to be moved to iLife > GarageBand. Hopefully you'll get a better response there here than this forum which is GarageBand for iOS.
tt2
Message was edited by: turingtest2

Garageband won't open after downloading Lion, what should I do?

I downloaded Lion from the app store, now my garageband won't open. Also I use Pro tools 8.4 and that won't work either!
I would appreciate any help or advice.

If it is the third party apps crashing - try downloading another app - any free app is fine. See if that resets the other apps.

After a recovery reinstall of 10.8.5, using Safari 6.0.3, I get the message "Safari won't open because of a problem"

After a recovery reinstall of 10.8.5 and using Safari 6.0.3, I get the message "Safari won't open because of a problem"
I'm not sure if this Safari is compatible. I also have Safari 7.0.4 in my applications folder, which i downloaded as an attempt to
solve the problem, but it isn't compatible with my system.

Having two copies of Safari on the hard drive is what's keeping Safari from opening.
Move the 7.0.4 version to the Trash.
Then restart your Mac and try Safari.
Safari 7.0.4 won't run on Mountain Lion. Only v10.9 Mavericks.

Garageband won't open at all!

Ok so I think since I upgraded to Leopard, my garageband won't open. It just says its "initializing" and the logo bounces in the dock for about 2 minutes or so... then it says "the program quit unexpectedly after it was relaunched"
I'm not sure what the problem is. I tried to take garageband06 from a friend, but that won't work for me either.
Can anyone help me?? I have sessions booked in my studio and I use garageband for some of it...

I just figured out this problem and thought I would provide the exact location of the problem file. Celemony's Melodyne Uno running (or not running for that matter) in Leopard was the problem for me.
Go to: Macintosh HD/Library/Applications Support and remove MelodyneUnoRewireDevice (which is an alias).
Then go to: Macintosh HD/Library/Applications Support/Propellerhead Software/ReWire/ and remove both of the Melodyne components there. You don't need to remove the other ReWire components.
You may also need to go to: Home/Library/Preferences and remove MelodyneUno Preferences.
Note: you probably won't have to remove the Uno application from the applications folder if you want to wait for an update.

Garageband Won't Open

Ok, so I was trying to download some effects to improve garageband. However, they weren't working correctly and I deleted the program. Ever since this garageband won't open. Every time I open the program it asks "Where is the Waves plug-ins folder?" and pulls up the finder for you to show where it is. I tried uprgading to garageband 3 (I had GB 1) as I was told by the cashier at the apple store that it would reinstall all the plugins I need.
Anyone know where I can find or get the Waves plug-ins folder? Thanks so much! I use this program in my live keyboard rig every week and I was quite limited without the program.
Thank you,
Jared

Thanks. Downloading the software again from Waves allowed me to open GB. The thing is I never used any plugins from this program in any of my GB projects and none of them would open until I reinstalled the Waves program. I really don't want the program. Is there a way to uninstall the program and still use GB.
Thanks so much,
Jared

GarageBand won't open in 10.6.6

GarageBand won't open after upgrade to 10.6.6 despite installing combo update and so forth. Tried locating com.apple.garage.plist in Library/Preferences but cannot find it.
Please help, I just keep getting the 'initializing' bar and I have to force quit. And now for some reason a CoreMIDI framework folder keeps appearing in my dock.
I spent a bloody fortune on ProTools and have had to accept that it's money down the drain after Snow Leopard upgrade but if GarageBand is screwed to then watch out below, Mac coming through window....

First if you run Pro Tools never update your OS until Avid says it's ok. I'm guessing that something pro tools may have done to a library or driver effected Garageband and the update broke pro tools and pro tools took garageband with it.
May be a good idea to get the newest version of garageband.

My messages app won't open, after I sent a large iMessage. I think it just has too much data on it. What can I do other then reset my iPhone?

My messages app won't open, after I sent a large iMessage. I think it just has too much data on it. What can I do other then reset my iPhone?

Hi everyone, I had this problem but none of the solutions above worked. What happened with me, and with others in other forums, is that a particular thread or message was causing the problem. I'd go to open the message and all I'd get was a white screen with the blue bar at the top. So, I went into contacts, pressed 'send message' to a contact whose message wasn't causing the problem, then I pressed back to messages. You then swipe to the left on the thread that's causing the problem, and delete it. Sadly this means you will lose all that person's messages, but you can try opening it from there and deleting it on the thread. Didn't work for me though. Hope that helps! It was the only thing that worked for me after about three days of total frustration and resetting!

HELP! I upgraded my macbook pro to leopard and garageband won't open!

To anyone who can help!
I've just upgraded my MacBook Pro 15 Inch to Leopard and now my GarageBand won't open up! What's more, my MacBook Pro now seems slower. Can anyone help me to get this fixed? I'm open to all suggestions!
-meverything

Well, I tried the permission repair thingy and it didn't work thanks for the advice though. really appreciate it. Any other ideas though?
-meverything

Message app won't open

For some reason every time I open my "Message" application it crashes no matter what. I dont know what to do and I dont want to do a Factory Reset. I already tried rebooting my phone and turning it off then on. I need help. Also at time some of my apps crash out of no where, mostly Facebook and Safari now my Message application won't open at all.

Did you try some other messaging apps?

I am trying to open a document I saved on a previous version of Pages, but ever since I updated, I get a message: "couldn't be opened: the required index.xml file is missing". Can anyone help me here?

I am trying to open a document I saved on a previous version of Pages, but ever since I updated, I get a message: "couldn't be opened: the required index.xml file is missing". Can anyone help me here?

Check this thread with possible answer from PeterBreis
Pages & Mavericks - "The required index.xml file is missing."
What can I do to open a pages file she I get this message"the required index.xml file is missing" ?

GB '09 won't open ANY of my song files

I have a Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz iMac and have been using GB '09. The hard drive recently died so Apple put a new one in. I cloned my 15" MBP to the iMac and now GB '09 won't open any of my song files. I already tried deleting the GB files in Library/Preferences, and I have reinstalled iLife '09 once already and nothing has worked.
In the process of troubleshooting I even created a brand new song file and saved it to the desktop. I quit GB and then restarted it and tried to open the file I just created seconds ago and I get an error message saying:
The document "My Song.band" could not be opened.
Thay's it. No further info to help me try to figure out why. I've got about half a dozen third-party plugins but I'd rather not start monkeying around with them if I don't have to. I was hoping someone out there has had this happen and knows how to fix it. I know there are various pref and cache files squirreled around on the hard drive, just don't know exactly where and which ones are safe to delete to try and fix this problem.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Okay, problem solved. I tried trashing the test song file I created and got a message that "The item will be deleted immediately". This made me think there were some hard drive permission issues which may be causing my GB problem. I Google around the internet and found the cause and solution.
It seems I didn't have write access to my own "Home" folder on the HD. Pretty odd, but that was the case. I did a "Get Info" (Cmd+I) on my home folder and added my primary user with Read and Write privileges. After that, files I deleted would just sit in the trash as normal and I was able to open my song files in GB.
Here's a link to solution that I found:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html#Anchor-Files-46919

My adobe photoshop CS6 won't open it says: 'the preferences file is invalid'. HELP!

My adobe photoshop CS6 won't open it says: 'the preferences file is invalid'. HELP!

Please read this and proceed accordingly:
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html

Audition won't open an MPEG 2 (.mpg) file states

audition won't open an MPEG 2 (.mpg) file states it is either corrupt or unsupported. On a windows 7 system I have DLMS enabled and still can't get it to work.
Thanks,!!

You haven't said which version of Audition you are using. From the appropriate Adobe page:
Adobe Audition 3 can not open MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files. An earlier version of Audition, Adobe Audition 2.0, could read MPEG files only if it was installed as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio software suite. (Audition does not include the software license required to encode and decode MPEG files; the license was a part of Production Studio.)
I'm not sure about whether Audition CS5.5 will, but I think that CS6 and CC should.
Or perhaps your file is corrupted!

"Illegal Sequence" message: GarageBand won't open, possibly due to corrupted files

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for