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Odd Mountain Lion Crashing Bug Brings Down Nearly Any App
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Time to sabotage peoples iMessage!
My friend already did that, I had to go find my history and delete it before messages would load again.
The bad news: It's serious and it's pervasive. Data Detectors code is widely used in OS X.
The good news: Should be simple to fix and test. Just a tweak to the parser.
The great news: It's terribly obscure. Very few Mac users ever type File://<anything>. Seriously.
706 people? What if they all manage to get tickets to WWDC 2013? It could be . . . tense.
Apparently sending File:/// to someone using Messages on Mac OS causes Messages to crash whenever they try to open it again.
Oh the irony if you had and they typed File:/// into their fault recording program and it crashed.
Not a bug, it is a feature!
Beat me to it!
Strangely, Command Q does the same thing.
I hope we get a fix soon.
Yeah, this is SO utterly embarrassing. Most of the world is required to type 'file:/*' into most apps these days. Their stock is going to plummet
Actually, it is down to $445....
Oh yes it does ...
cmd-O and then type File:///
boom
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Just found that the crash can be stopped by turning off the DataDetectors use in individual applications, e.g. ..
defaults write com.apple.terminal DisableDataDetectors YES
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Nope ... don't type ... File:///
cmd-O and then type File:///
boom
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Just found that the crash can be stopped by turning off the DataDetectors use in individual applications, e.g. ..
defaults write com.apple.terminal DisableDataDetectors YES
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Nope ... don't type ... File:///
My friend already did that, I had to go find my history and delete it before messages would load again.
Deleting this history isn't working...
I deleted these:
~/Library/Messages
~/Libary/Caches/com.apple.messages
~/Library/Saved Application States/com.apple.ichat
What should I try next?
Deleting this history isn't working...
I deleted these:
~/Library/Messages
~/Libary/Caches/com.apple.messages
~/Library/Saved Application States/com.apple.ichat
What should I try next?
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ichat, com.apple.imessage.bag
And reboot after you empty the trash.
Re-booting in itself fixes it until you do it again.
This bug is in the root of the kernel. Syntax..
Looks like that worked. Thanks! I didn't really want to make the person delete their prefs so that was my last resort.
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For some reason deleting all those other things and rebooting didn't help on my friend's comp. Messages still crashed.
If you have iCloud synching go to either the iPad or the iPhone and delete the message with the error. Then it should propagate to the Mac and the message with the error will be gone.