Saving changes on file close doesn't work
I just upgraded from iLife 4 to 6, and cannot get iMovie 6 to save changes when I close the project and press the Save button in response to the question: "Do you want to save the changes you made in the document [name of file]?" If I hit command-S manually before closing the file, it WILL save changes, but I am worried that one day I will forget to manually save changes, approve the "save changes on file close" request, and my changes will be lost! I have tossed the preferences and run repair permissions, but neither one helped. I have never seen any Mac application (or Windows, for that matter) fail to save changes when you close a file and get asked to save changes. Does yours work? What am I doing wrong?
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Welcome to the forum!
The failure to save when you close a project very, very weird. That one is new to me.
iMovie HD does require that the project disk uses the Mac OS Extended disk format. If it uses another format, there can be problems saving. So I'd start there.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
Be sure too to rule out third-party plug-ins and QuickTime add-ons that can cause weird problems. There probably aren't many iLife 6 user still using Mac OS 10.3.9. Although iMovie 6 is supposed to run okay, it may be that you'll see problems others don't see.
Is the routine maintenance that Mac OS X does on its own getting done?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388
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