After Effects Opening Error

[Matt Stevens]

Please someone help me!

[Christopher R. green]

Hi Matt.
Probably won’t be able to help you out here, but I figure I’d get the ball rolling and ask a few questions:

Is this the first time you have attempted to launch AE on your Intel mac? If not, what has changed (obvious question, I know)?
At what point does the error come — very beginning of launch? As it is loading and listing AE components? If so, can you see what component is loading when it craps out?

[Matt Stevens]

Thanks for the response. I’ve used it for awhile and all the sudden it’s throwing this error as I click the after effects alias. It doesnt even load up the loading window just throws the pop up error. Nothing has changed with my system.

[Christopher R. green]

[Matt Stevens] “Nothing has changed with my system.”

Not even a recent OS update?

[Klhpioneer]

I get the same error.

This is not the first time I have run After Effects on my Intel Macbook Pro.

I just loaded Vers. 7 on the Macbook, I ran some lame project on it too see what it was all about. I get this error when I try to type a new text layer. I have 5 layers of the same STILL image that I put into a pre-comp, then used the text tool in the layer in which the pre-comp was imported.

It won’t let me type now without this error coming up, and the only way I can stop the error is by hitting “ok” and doing an “apple-S” before the next error comes up.

-jas

[Brian Covalt]

yeah, I’m getting there error message too. But I’m not on an Intel machine. I’m on a quad-core G5 (powerpc). It worked fine on Friday, but now, Monday moring, I can’t launch the application. I get the error upon launch, before I see the After Effects window or anything.
I have noticed that I can launch it okay if I login as a different user. But I’ve thrown away my preference files for after effects, so I still can’t figure out why I can’t get it to work with my normal user account.

[Aled Rhys jones]

Well, after days of trying to sort out the same problem (“Unknown BIB Error…”), I finally decided to do some serious cleaning.
I used Tech Tool Pro and ran the whole extensive tests and de-fragmenting tool.

It worked perfectly.

I recommend this software to anyone. It’s saved my a**e so many times.

I figured the problem lies with permissions, especially with the new security updates of OS 10.4.8

Not sure of the details but well worth splashing out a few quid on Tech Tool Pro.

All the best

Al