Fix a localized media crashing bug in GarageBand 3

Jan 27, '06 05:16:00AM

Contributed by: philou54

In GarageBand 3, when creating a podcast, if I dragged a picture in from the media inpector, GB3 would freeze. I couldn't do anything and would have to quit. Since I use GB3 in the French language, and I hadn't heard about any issues with the English version, I launched it in an American session. Indeed, when running in the American mode, it worked fine.

So I went trough the program's folders to try find to find the source of the problem. After a lot of looking, I found the solution. Control-click on GarageBand and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, and then navigate into Resources -> French.lproj. Open the file named Localizable.strings in your favorite text editor. Find these lines:

/* media editor table: headerstring for podcast URL column */
"URL" = "Adresse URL";
Change the second line to read:
"URL"="URL"
Save the file and quit the editor. As Steve Jobs used to say, "BOOOMMMM!," it now works great! I hope this will help other non-English users of GB3.

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