[mfm-list]trashing plists

[dan r]

I had an app that sometimes abbrieviated its name and
sometimes not. I noticed this trend in the
documentation and it just happened to bear out in the
naming of program files as well.


--- Windsor Smith <WindsorS@mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> Ron,
> 
> Whenever a Mac application consistently crashes upon
> launch and I  
> can't figure out why, the first thing I do is create
> a clean, new test  
> account, log in to it, and try to launch the app
> from there. (You've  
> effectively already done this step.) If the app
> launches properly in  
> one account but not another, then a likely culprit
> is some corrupted  
> preference file or application support file buried
> in the home folder/ 
> directory of the problematic account.
> 
> At that point I start either trashing (followed by
> "Empty Trash")  
> the .plist files in the problematic account which
> are related to the  
> app, or at least moving them somewhere other than
> the folder where  
> they usually reside, such as the desktop. Those
> .plist files are  
> usually in ~/Library/Preferences, often with a file
> name that looks  
> like "com.<company>.<application>....plist". (Note:
> Tilde '~' is Unix  
> shorthand for an account's home directory; for
> example, ~/Library in  
> my own account would be /Users/windsor/Library.)
> 
> If the app still crashes on launch then I perform
> the same procedure  
> with any other application support files I can find
> which appear to be  
> both related to the crashing app, and also specific
> to the problematic  
> account. If they exist, they're probably in
> ~/Library/Application  
> Support.
> 
> BTW, I think in most cases you can navigate a Finder
> window to ~/ 
> Library and simply do a local file name search
> (using the app name as  
> the search's keyword) to find some likely suspects,
> but, when I tried  
> that just now, the search results mysteriously
> omitted many of the  
> Compressor files that I know exist, including the
> .plist files; I have  
> no idea why.
> 
> Anyway, that approach has fixed launch problems for
> me at least three  
> times in the past; hope it works for you.
> 
> -- Windsor Smith
> -- Producer/Director/Editor "Parents, Families &
> Friends" (cable access)
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 09:20, Ron Dawson wrote:
> 
> > So, I have a new twist with my FCS woes. I
> reinstalled Final Cut  
> > Studio update and that fixed my previous problem
> of it bailing out  
> > on launch. That's the good news. The bad news is
> that now Compressor  
> > won't open when I'm logged into my main OS
> account. I just hangs.  
> > When I log into the other OS account, it opens
> fine. Any bright  
> > ideas? I ran repair permissions.
> >
> > stats:
> > FCP 6.0.2
> > Compressor 3.0.3
> >
> >
> > -- 
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