Other Silly Mavericks Issues

[GalacticStag]

Hi, uh. First thread here after just replying to others! I need help. I recently installed OS X Mavericks on my secondary drive to use apps that Snow Leopard doesn’t support, mostly just games like DiRT 3 and F1 2013, but also to use Firefox Dynasty as there are two or three websites that either don’t work in PowerFox as of writing this or crash and die. Anyways, I’m having issues with certain apps! Namely, Preview, Logic Pro X (downloaded from Macintosh Garden) and essentially every iLife '13 app except for iPhoto, oh and TextEdit too, i only figured this out while trying to save a crash log, yay. I try to open them, the 'create new file’/library menu pops up, i click ANYTHING, and the app just CRASHES with a bad access error! What should i do? Here’s a crash log from when i try to open iMovie.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

It crashes on [NSDocument _temporaryVersionStorageRequirementErrorForURL:]

This is a shot in the dark, but based purely on the function name... how much free space is there on this partition?

Edit: Also, can you try repairing the disk in Disk Utility?

 

[Amethyst1]

Edit: Also, can you try repairing the disk in Disk Utility?

I just noticed my Mavericks install had the same issues. Repairing the disk and permissions from the recovery partition seems to have fixed it. Thanks. 👍

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I just noticed my Mavericks install had the same issues. Repairing the disk and permissions from the recovery partition seems to have fixed it. Thanks. 👍

You’re welcome! HFS Plus is not a good filesystem, it’s worth checking this on occasion. (And of course using Time Machine.)

 

[GalacticStag]

(by the way this only seems to happen with these apps? it’s so weird.)

It crashes on [NSDocument _temporaryVersionStorageRequirementErrorForURL:]

This is a shot in the dark, but based purely on the function name... how much free space is there on this partition?

Edit: Also, can you try repairing the disk in Disk Utility?

Yeah, that’s the odd thing, it’s a 500GB drive, and it has 410gb free!

And yeah, i’ve done that already , but NOT from the recovery partition, i’ll try later. One thing I know is that it’s not complaining about the install being in an external disk, since i previously used this disk with Lion and then Mountain Lion and it worked great! And Mavericks is a more stable version, so it can’t be that, right??

 

[Wowfunhappy]

It’s possible there’s some weird edge case bug that only happens on external disks since I’m sure nobody tests on those as thoroughly, but of course OS X should work on external disks. I do think something is weird with your disk, though.

You could also presumably turn off revision history to fix it? I’m not sure how to do that but I’m pretty sure you can? That would suck though, revision history is such a useful feature.

 

[GalacticStag]

It’s possible there’s some weird edge case bug that only happens on external disks since I’m sure nobody tests on those as thoroughly, but of course OS X should work on external disks. I do think something is weird with your disk, though.

You could also presumably turn off revision history to fix it? I’m not sure how to do that but I’m pretty sure you can? That would suck though, revision history is such a useful feature.

yeah i have NO CLUE how to turn off revision history 🙁 i’ll try the repair disk method on the recovery partition later and report back, otherwise i have NO clue what might be going on. All of the other apps work great! iWork, Messages, Safari, Firefox, the games (ALTHOUGH, DiRT 3 can’t seem to make a new save, it deletes everything on the save folder and creates new ones to replace them, it’s so weird, might be another variant of this issue¿¿) work well too, so… i dunno man, i even remember trying Mavericks on this very disk a few years back before i downgraded the main disk down to Snow Leopard (dont ask me how finding a copy of mavericks was easier than finding one of snow leopard, since today it seems like the opposite is true) and it worked great! I swear these things only happen to me X,C

 

[f54da]

Same issue as https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ps-after-initial-setup.2464846/?post=34129124

Very rare, I don't know what causes it, but seems like using a different drive fixed it

 

[GalacticStag]

Same issue as https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ps-after-initial-setup.2464846/?post=34129124

Very rare, I don't know what causes it, but seems like using a different drive fixed it

Oh wow, i see. Well, only really important thing i had there was DiRT 3 and some PDF files, i used my main drive for everything else. It's a shame that i'll have to reformat it, since i don't really want to use another HDD and the OP said reformating it fixed it. Thank you! Even after verifying the disk and repairing it on disk utility, the problems weren't gone.

 

[h1d3Mac]

I am experiencing a similar issue when using Mavericks in a multi-boot environment.
Applications like TextEdit crash whenever I try to save a file.
To fix this, run the following command:

sudo rm -rf /.DocumentRevisions-V100

Restart your Mac just to be safe.
Since this issue recurs frequently, I have to run the command each time it happens.

 

[f54da]

At that point you could disable versions entirely

How to completely disable auto-save and versions in Mac OS X Lion?

I hate the automatic saving and versioning in Mac OS X Lion. Is there a way to completely turn it off? (This has been asked before here, but the answer and the linked article are completely wrong...

apple.stackexchange.com

 

[Wowfunhappy]

am experiencing a similar issue when using Mavericks in a multi-boot environment.
Applications like TextEdit crash whenever I try to save a file.

Now this is interesting.

I think all of the people who have run into this problem have been dual-booting multiple versions of OS X, right?

 

[f54da]

> have been dual-booting multiple versions of OS X

Presumably they'd be in different partitions though? I know HFS does some weird stuff for hard links, but what's going on in one partition shouldn't affect the other... right?

 

[Amethyst1]

I think all of the people who have run into this problem have been dual-booting multiple versions of OS X, right?

My machine has Mavericks on HFS+ and OCLP Ventura (both with indexing disabled) on APFS, yep.

 

[kencu]

Most of the time, when dual booting MacOS versions, when you are booted in one MacOS version, the other partition is mounted.

I have wondered if the difference between OS versions could lead to structures being modified on the drive (Spotlight, etc) that might cause troubles when the other OS version is later booted.

I saw strange errors suggesting this once, and wiped all such things from the drive I thought was affected. Now I try not to leave the other OS partition mounted.