{"id":18,"date":"2006-07-29T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/possible-fix-for-mac-apps-that-immediately-quit\/"},"modified":"2006-07-29T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T22:54:50","slug":"possible-fix-for-mac-apps-that-immediately-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/possible-fix-for-mac-apps-that-immediately-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible fix for Mac apps that immediately quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the blue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/imovie\/\">iMovie<\/a> decided to stop working for me. I&#8217;d launch it, and it would immediately quit. Not crashing, just quitting. (No crash log was generated.) The dock icon wouldn&#8217;t even appear.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it wasn&#8217;t a problem with the iMovie application itself because when I switched to another user account on the same machine, iMovie ran fine. It had to be something in my home directory that was causing the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, simply getting rid of any preferences or caches fixes this sort of problem. I checked my account and found these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>~\/Library\/iMovie\/<\/li>\n<li>~\/Library\/Caches\/iMovie HD\/<\/li>\n<li>~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.iMovie.plist<\/li>\n<li>~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.iMovie3.plist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, moving them out of my Library directory didn&#8217;t change a thing. iMovie was still quitting on launch. Frustrated, I took my PowerBook to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/fashionisland\/\">local Apple Store<\/a> for some advice, but even the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genius\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the bar wasn&#8217;t able to help. I returned home thinking that I&#8217;d have to reinstall Mac OS X before iMovie would ever work again.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to give iMovie one last try. On a whim, I dragged its icon out of the Applications folder and into my Desktop, then launched it from there. Imagine my shock when iMovie started up! I quit, moved the icon back to Applications, and launched iMovie again. It still worked! Everything was back to normal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"221\" border=\"0\" title=\"iMovie\" alt=\"iMovie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/_resources_imovie5_imovie_icon.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why dragging iMovie out of the Applications folder solved the problem. In fact, it <em>shouldn&#8217;t have worked<\/em>. But it did. Assuming this is not some obscure and one-in-a-zillion issue, it may affect other Mac apps, not just iMovie, so I&#8217;m posting this tip in the hope that it might help others who encounter the same problem I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the blue, iMovie decided to stop working for me. I&#8217;d launch it, and it would immediately quit. Not crashing, just quitting. (No crash log was generated.) The dock icon wouldn&#8217;t even appear. I knew it wasn&#8217;t a problem with the iMovie application itself because when I switched to another user account on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-software","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vocaro.com\/trevor\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}