[cenutrio]

Hi guys,

Just replaced my old laptop HD with a new one and transferred all my documents and applications. It seems that the iLife 05 applications iPhoto and iMovie can not open or just crash while loading. It seems there's some files gone.

This was double checked while restarting, a folder with question mark shows up however the system is capable of loading completely and appears to work well.


There is the report when iMovie crashes (I bet it is also related to the iPhoto problems:

Date/Time: 2005-03-21 00:11:06 -0600
OS Version: 10.3.8 (Build 7U16)
Report Version: 2

Command: iMovie HD
Path: /Applications/iMovie HD.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie HD
Version: 5.0.1 (5.0.1)
PID: 350
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

dyld: /Applications/iMovie HD.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie HD can't open library: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleAppSupport.framework/AppleAppSupport (No such file or directory, errno = 2)



Any ideas what's going on,

Thanks in advance.

[Mithras]

1. The question mark is solved by picking your drive in the Startup Disk preference panel, or holding down the option key at boot and choosing your disk. The question mark simply indicates that no startup disk is selected, or the Powerbook can't find the selected startup disk (i.e. your old disk); it then flashes the question mark while it looks around for another disk to start from.

2. How did you "transfer all your documents and applications"? Were you a good boy and used something like Carbon Copy Cloner, or did you just drag things across?
Dragging across works fine for apps that install with a drag-and-drop, but for apps that use package installers, that won't work, because (as you suspected) they install other files elsewhere in the computer.

The solution is simple: reinstall iLife05 from the DVD, using the package installer to replace those files that you didn't transfer.

[cenutrio]

Ok, Thanks for the answer but I'm not that novice

The question mark appears with the external HD unplugged. Somehow when the iPhoto crashed when loading for the first time screw up the system too and some files (may be shared for the system) disappeared. As a result, the question mark appears when starting up (again, no ext HD).


I did not use any back up program since I had run Panther for over a year and I did not want to keep all the crap accumulated in the system . A clean install really gives you a snappy system, my old system had the tendency to slow down over time.

Not a major thing since the computer has been working fine 24 h straight and I keep the laptop 24/7 for months. However, iPhoto and iMovie are still unable to load.

Yeah, I wish I had the iLive O5, but I do not have it, a colleague share it with me (I can always return to iLife 04). It would solve the application issue, but what about the system?

I was hoping for a Unix geek that would give me the command line to replace the missing files, I know they are related to the "PrivateFrameworks" folder.

[Mithras]

Did you try selecting your internal disk in the startup disk prefpane? I'll wager even money it solves the question mark problem. Having the external drive plugged in has nothing to do with it; it's a matter of what commands have been stored in the NVRAM.

[cenutrio]

Just checked twice, this is not the problem...question mark still there.

Again, when iPhoto crashed the very first time it was trying to load stuff from the system, I'm convince it did screw up things.