Keith, Thanks again for the very fast reply (by phone) and solution to my problem. Now I can continue on with tax prep, ugh!
Pam
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| Author: | Hoof Pix [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | CB crashes on opening |
I have been using CB for about 2 days. Loved it soon after trying and bought. But today when I open the program, it closes within seconds and displays the error message asking if I want to send a report to Apple, Cancel or ReOpen. I have tried umteen times to reopen with no success. I moved my backed-up .plist and folder to an external HD, then trashed everything I could find related to the CB program. Then trashed the trash, rebooted and downloaded the dng again from the Splasm website (i.e. started all over from scratch). The program still closes!! Help pls. as the data I entered and need to finish is for my taxes! Thanks! |
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| Author: | keithg [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:24 pm ] |
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The issue turned out to be related to a potential crash that can occur when there's a snafu while CheckBook checks for updates at splasm.com. When checking for updates, CheckBook downloads a very small file from splasm.com containing information about the latest version. This file is read with Apple's NSDictionary class. We've found that files with certain sequences of characters can cause NSDictionary to throw an exception rather than simply fail and return a nil object - in other words, under the right circumstances, NSDictionary can fail catastrophically while initializing. It appears that something in the network between users and splasm.com can cause the version file to become corrupted, either in transit or in an ISP's HTTP cache, which can create the right circumstances. CheckBook 1.6.2 and later will handle this gracefully by catching exceptions during NSDictionary's initialization of the version file and simply proceeding as if the version check had not taken place, preventing crashes like this. |
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| Author: | Hoof Pix [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:37 pm ] |
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Keith, Thanks again for the very fast reply (by phone) and solution to my problem. Now I can continue on with tax prep, ugh!
Pam |
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| Author: | t3rockhall [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:45 pm ] |
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Happens to me every now and then. I just click on CB again and it runs fine. Speaking of "checking for updates," ...? |
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| Author: | keithg [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:50 pm ] |
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I apologize - I should have noted earlier that the workaround until CheckBook 1.6.2 is to disable the automatic check for updates in CheckBook's preferences. It's the last checkbox under the General tab. |
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