"IMovie unexpectedly quit" while in the middle of editing. HELP!!!
Hi,
I've had my Macbook for almost a year and have had almost zero problems with it until recently. IMovie, ITunes, Safari and pretty much any other program I oftenly use "unexpectedly quits" while in the middle of using it. Mostly at the worst possilbe times. For example, almost finishing a video edit, in tern losing everything I've worked on for sometimes up to 2 hours of work. This problem is getting more and more often by the day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day.
I thought Macs don't get viruses but this is definitely a sign of some sort of virus to me.
HELP!!!!
Thank you,
Dillon
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Hi Dillon
Virus - Very un-likely.
A confused hard disk - most likely: There are maintenance to do to all computers
Widows as Macs.
a. If You let Your Mac run from 00:00:00 to about 2 am there is an automated
sequence that runs and does some tidying up.
b. Other things to do:
- Repair Permissions (Apple Disk Util tool)
- Repair Hard disk (Apple Disk Util tool) - You need to start from CD/DVD or
one external hard disk
- Eventually: Start a new account - log into this and re-try.
The "Repair Permissions" is suggested by many of us in this forum to be run
- before a new instalment of programs AND
- after the instal.
c. Another thought: How much free space is there on Your hard disk.
- Mac OS needs about 10Gb just to keep everything open
- eg. iDVD needs about 15Gb more to do it's job
- the material to be processed eg. a movie file that iDVD should convert to
mpeg2 and a DVD-disk needs storage eg about 13Gb/hour
So You see it is really easy to get into "Low free space" - troubles.
If about 5Gb or less free - You would certainly get into strange problems.
Please - keep us updated on progress.
Yours Bengt W
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