Garageband Issue

[Centauri]

Hello all, glad to finally register here after being just a reader for so long.


I've a problem with Garageband.

I've not used it for some time, and it's developed a problem which occurs when I open Garageband and try to "Open an Existing Project". I select the file I want and click 'Open', and then while the file is loading up, it freezes. I can't do anything except Force Quit.

Sometimes I can actually get to the menu and click to begin a new project, and the program starts up fine. Sometimes I don't even get that far.
Something new is obviously clashing with it but there's no way of telling what.

Is there any solution or will a re-install do the trick?



Many thanks in advance.


PS Dunno if it makes any difference, but the following comes up in the error report when it crashes; (along with a load of other stuff)

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000

 

[McYukon]

Try moving the Plist located at /users/youruser/library/prefereces/com.apple.garageband.plist to the desktop.
Start garageband and see if the problem persists.

 

[Centauri]

That has worked!! Fantastic, thanks for your help.

I'm not even going to try to understand what difference moving that file made (??).

Thanks again.

 

[McYukon]

Well, sometimes those files corrupt and then they wreck havoc to the application trying to read them.
You can now (if you haven't already) delete it.