MacBook Air IMovie Crash
My IMovie keeps crashing every time I open it. It opens on other accounts but not on my personal one. Every time I open it, in 3-5 seconds it crashes again. How can I get it to work?
MacBook Air
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Hi, Aviera1,
It looks like you have a conflict in your main account, since iMovie opens without crashing on your other accounts.
Try these procedures to see if they cure it:
- Open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and select to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. Now see if the crashing issue is solved.
2.If still no luck, try booting up in Safe Mode (see Finder help menu for instructions) and as soon as everything loads immediately shut down and restart in normal mode. Sometimes that clears out conflicts that cause crashes.
3.If the problem persists, try opening iMovie in a new library by opening iMovie while holding down the Option key and, in the box that appears, choose a different library or create a new library. See if that works.
4. All else failing, try redownloading iMovie. To update/redownload iMovie 10, drag your iMovie 10 app from the Applications folder into the trash, but do not empty the trash. Sign in to the app store and open your purchases folder by clicking on your name at the bottom of the app store side bar. You will see your purchases displayed, including iMovie 10. Redownload/update iMovie from there. If not successful, drag your present iMovie app out of the trash and return it to the Applications folder.
-- Rich