Imovie 09 never stops building thumbnails-

greetings,
this is the first ever launch of imovie 09 on a new macbook pro. there is a 80GB aperture library with lots of short movies taken with various cams and phones…
now when i launch imovie it tells me that it needs to create thumbnails for my aperture library… and after 18hours still is running (hot) and askes for another 380hours time… what ?!?
anyone know how to deal with such situation ?
thanks in advance…
ab.

You are welcome.
In Activity Monitor, left click on the process (iMovie). Then click "Inspect" (second from left at the top).
A window should come up. In this window, you should see %CPU and "Recent Hangs". If "Recent Hangs" is zero, it is probably working OK. If "Recent Hangs" has a positive number in it, you could be in an infinite loop that will never finish.
If you need to Force Quit, I would use /Force Quit rather than force quitting from the Activity Monitor. There may be multiple threads that need to be killed.
Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

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