Quicktime Player "The operation could not be completed"

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me, I just used the quicktime screen recording and after i finished it i tried to save it. It started saving but then it said "The operation could not be completed" I need help I don't know what this is and I've never seen it before. Also I have before been able to save it but for some reason this time i can't. PLEASE HELP!

Sounds like a corrupted export. Trash that copy and export it again.

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Quicktime - "Error: The operation could not be completed"

I just took 1 and a half hours' worth of footage in quicktime screen recording, which I would rather not lose if possible. However, when I try to save the footage, it gives me the error listed in the title.
I don't seem to have a problem with not being connected to a charger, running out of CPU, or having a weird copy of QuickTime (my quicktime is the version that came with the computer).
Help?

Terence,
Youre a genius!
It worked.
(My machine was going to sleep while I was trying to export.
I changed settings to prevent sleeping and the render completed.)
Thanks for the help.

When I try to make a new video, a window comes up that says,"The operation could not be completed," and then under it, it says,"No other information is available about the problem," what is happening and how do I fix it?

when I try to make a new video, a window comes up that says,"The operation could not be completed," and then under it, it says,"No other information is available about the problem," what is happening and how do I fix it?

Hi
And without info - it's near to impossibly to help. Try my general troubleshooting note:
Troubleshooting note
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
Creating a new User-Account and log into this
This forces iMovie to create all pref. and cache files new and error free
Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
a Codec is used that doesn't work (even though iMovie and/or iDVD tries to / they fail in the end)
version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
USB-flash-memories - usually do not work
Net-work connected hard disks - usually do not work (most often not fast enough and WRONGLY FORMATTES as DOS etc)
iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie. When iMovie starts-up it first look trough this iPhoto library and if faulty it all Halt’s.
This You do by
First - close iPhoto
Secondly - on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
Thirdly - now select all five options presented
THEN - WAIT a long long time (>20 hours are not strange)
free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try
GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
Screen must be set to million-colors
Third-party plug-ins doesn't work OK
Run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac
Let Your Mac be turned on during one night. At about midnight there is a set of maintenance programs that runs and tidying up. This might help
Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.
In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try
(I deleted the file "3ivxVideoCodec.component" located in Mac HD/Library/Quicktime and this resolved my issue.)
buenrodri wrote
I solved the problem by removing the file: 3ivxVideoCodec.component. after that, up-dated iMovie runs ok.
Last resort: Trash all of iMovie and re-install it
Yours Bengt W

I cannot "save" my newly reduced size video after using the "TRIM" feature...I get "The Operation could not be completed". Why?

I would start with my original AVI file, then hit duplicate to get a duplicate file to work on....I then would use the "TRIM" feature to shorten the video. Then when I hit "close", and it prompted me to name the newly reduced file, and saved it appropriately.So I did this procedure with two of my AVI format videos and it worked flawlessly.
But I have tried to do this same procedure with a half a dozen more AVI videos and it will not allow me to name the modified file after I have "trimmed it" and save it...when I enter the name for the modified file and hit "close", I get the message "The operation could not be completed". Why isn't it allowing me to save the files??
(I am working with OSX 10.7.3, Quicktime Player 10.1 iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core i3)

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Set name of file - 'the operation could not be completed'

I have a script (see below) that is supposed to rename a list of files that have been recently saved as self contained by Quicktime Player in a script just run prior to this script .
What happens is that if the script is run immediately after the Quicktime Player script it generates a dialog with the message 'The operation could not be completed'. It was puzzling since the script would occasionally work as I tested it on its own in script editor.
After much trial and error messages I discovered that if
1. I run the Quicktime Player script saving the movies; Then
2. manually open the folder containing the movies in the finder, then
3. run the script to rename the movies,
the script would run correctly. If I don't open the folder the script fails with the 'the operation could not be completed' dialog.
Any ideas as to why this happens? Any workarounds suggested?
Thanks
Martin Koob
set movies_list to {"G-DRIVE:Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A1.mov", "G-DRIVE:Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A2.mov", "G-DRIVE:Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A3.mov"}
set total_segments to "3" as integer
tell application "Finder"
try
activate
display dialog total_segments
repeat with current_segment from 1 to (total_segments)
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set thismoviepath to item current_segment of movies_list
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set thisfilename to the last text item of thismoviepath
set name_length to the length of thisfilename
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
set newfilename to the characters 3 thru name_length of thisfilename
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on error errormessage
display dialog errormessage
end try
end tell

Hello
Finder has been affected by its long standing bug or design flaw in updating its internal cache, which seems relevant to your case.
Here's two sample codes I'd try.
Hope this may help,
H
PS. Why are you renaming files after saving them in different names? Saving them in the final names in QT Player would be the simplest way. Just my thought.
-- SAMPLE1
set pp to {"G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A1.mov", "G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A2.mov", "G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A3.mov"}
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
repeat with p in pp
set p to p's contents
set n to p's text item -1 -- original file name
set n1 to n's text 3 thru -1 -- new file name
set dp to "" & (p's text items 1 thru -2) & ":" -- container path
tell application "Finder"
(* code to evade Finder's bug by 'update' *)
update item dp -- update container status
--update item p -- update file status (may not be necessary)
set name of item p to n1 -- rename file
end tell
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
on error errs number errn
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
display dialog errs & " " & errn
end try
-- END OF SAMPLE1
-- SAMPLE2
set pp to {"G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A1.mov", "G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A2.mov", "G-DRIVE:Videobook Projects:august 20 test 7:m-august 20 test 7A3.mov"}
try
tell application "Finder"
repeat with p in pp
set a to p as alias
(* code to evade Finder's bug by 'update' *)
update a's container -- update container status (may or may not work)
--update a -- update file status (may or may not work)
tell item a
set name to (get name)'s text 3 thru -1
end tell
end repeat
end tell
on error errs number errn
display dialog errs & " " & errn
end try
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I am trying to create a new movie and got this error message " The operation could not be completed" after selecting the Themes.
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My problem was because I had moved my Movies folder from the system drive (which is an SSD) over to another drive with a larger capacity. I then created an Alias in my home folder. Turns out this is what was causing the problem. I shoulda known. Some apps absolutely hate this. iMovie, being the dumbed down garbage that it is, simply MUST have it's library in a certain folder, apparently. Would be nice if we had a choice about it.
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Kathy ...
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I think that error was due to the fact that I hadn't upgraded MAC OSX after installing it. I have done that now and now I get another error saying the masters are offline.
I found this old thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1965601?start=0&tstart=0 which seems to be the same problem. This is a whole other topic so I will start a new thread, but leave this in case anyone gets the same problem as me. Upgrade your OSX. That's the solution :-)

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'The operation could not be completed. Access is denied' during delete.

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The Operation could not be completed. No other information is available about the problem.

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"The Operation could not be completed. No other information is available about the problem."
Uploaded on google drive a series of project files. downloaded them and now the message above is what pops up effectively blocking me from my work. After talking with google support, they confirmed the successful upload and download with no file corruption. All file extensions are the same. Can someone please help.
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Try the following..
Compress the audio files before uploading them to Google.. using Apple's built in file compressor... (Right/Control click on an audio file and choose compress from the popup menu...
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