The unfortunate instance when an individual application or your entire mac or iOS device refuses to respond or function properly. Usually causes the app to "quit" or the interface to "freeze".
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Facebook messages causing the Facebook app on my iPad to crash
I have an iPad mini, updated to iOS 6. I can use my Facebook app well in every department apart from messages. In both the top display and side display, when I click on the messages option the ...
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computer sleeps, then crashes later
For the past several weeks, this has been happening.
I put the computer to sleep at night, and when I wake the computer up the next morning, my computer has restarted itself.
There's a "Problem ...
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Boot Camp Assistant crashes when partitioning drive (exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS)
I run Mountain Lion, a fresh install, brand new Macbook Pro. HD: Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB SSD.
When trying to go through Boot Camp Assistant / Setup it works fine until it wants to repartition my ...
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Facebook app on iPad crashes every time I want to go into messages
I have an iPad 3, updated to iOS 6.0.1. I can use my Facebook app well in every department apart from messages. In both the top display and side display, when I click on the messages option the ...
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iPhoto refuses to open, even after deletion and reinstall
Here's the error message:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/NyxAudioAnalysis
Referenced from: ...
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MacBook Pro Lion crashes after a progress bar boot
Basically my MBP started giving me messages (out of nowhere) about how my Memory was too low and that I needed to shut down a few programs before continuing. In the end I was left with only Finder ...
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Diagnosing iMac hard crashes
OS X 10.7.x, (updated to 10.7.2 when it became available last week); Quad Core iMac.
Hard crashing about every 2 or 3 weeks, except had one yesterday and another today, 5 times total so far. Mouse ...
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Any way on God's green earth to disable resuming applications after a crash?
Using OS 10.6.8
Every month or two I'll have a hard crash on my MacBook Pro and I'll have to force reboot by holding down the power button. No big deal, I've been doing this on various macs since ...
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Macbook Pro 2007 Crashes
I have a macbook pro 2007 . 4gb of ram 320gb. i bought this macbook off eBay over the summer. it came with leopard , 2 months later then i upgrade to snow leopard, then to mountain lion. i currently ...
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Messed up color profiles in Mountain Lion
For some unknown reason, my color profiles are messed up in way that whenever an application (e.g. pixelmator, Preview, Xcode, etc.) tries loading Adobe RGB 1998 color profile (probably any other ...
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My Macbook Pro crashes every time I change my desktop
So everytime I change my background on my desktop, I go and delete the image. The next thing I almost always find is that the next time I turn my Macbook on, the whole thing freezes and I always have ...
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Macbook won't boot, possibly HDD issue
I am posting this for a friend who is having this problem but obviously can't post this himself as his computer will not boot up. He started having problems after a video game crashed during online ...
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My Mac show a login screen on a spinning cube which keeps on spinning
My 2009 iMac with Lion keeps on getting stuck everytime my son's limited time ends and the computer subsequently wakes up from sleep.
How to reproduce
In other words, my son has a limited usage ...
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Lion crashes on first reboot attempt, is fine on second reboot
I'm having a weird issue with Lion on 2 different machines (2008 Mac Pro, 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro). The first machine was upgraded through several OS versions to Lion, the second came with Lion ...
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What is Mountain Lion (10.8.2) shutdown cause -81?
My 15-inch, Mid 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.2 mysteriously crashed while it should have been sleeping. Nothing in the Console logs indicate that it was shutting down, and when it booted up it ...
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Google Chrome Crash on Startup
I prefer to use Safari but I'm going into web design so I want to have a few browsers on my MacBook to view my work. When I try and open Chrome, it crashes on startup. This has been a problem since I ...
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Help Viewer Crashing in Mountain Lion
I am having trouble with the Help Viewer in Mountain Lion crashing. I first tried updating Lion to Mountain Lion. The problem was very pronounced. Then I re-installed the 10.8.2 combo updater - same ...
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iPhoto crashes at launch?
Whenever I open iPhoto, I get this error :
Any idea how to fix this ?
Error log :
Process: iPhoto [52263]
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier: ...
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What can be done when Finder crashes constantly?
Finder has started to crash constantly such that I can't click the icon in Dock. I can't click Apple in top-left corner of the screan (Finder also crash), I don't have any menubar icons from Apple ...
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Why do Firefox and Chrome crash on my Macbook Pro?
I have trouble running Firefox and Chrome on my Mac.
Firefox is crashing from time to time:
http://pastebin.com/UYYjPbZe
Chrome crashes right after installation, it couldn't run it even once:
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iTunes crashes (have to force close) when choosing Movies
Every time I select Movies pane on the left-hand side, iTunes crashes and I have to force quit it. I only ever had two movies in iTunes, but I don't think these are present on my hard drive any more. ...
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X11 keeps crashing with “Cannot establish any listening sockets”, I cleared /tmp but it still crashes
Started X11 on Lion today, now it keeps crashing over and over - can't get it to stop.
Cannot establish any listening sockets
1) is there any way to stop this over and over again?
2) is there a ...
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100% CPU Lock Up On Launching Applications On AFP Shares
When ever I try to launch an application that is located on an AFP share, the CPU load raises to max and shortly after that the system locks. Why is this? How can I prevent it?
I'm on current Lion, ...
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MacBook Pro: Strange crashes
I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part, but I've been having a few issues which I find very worrisome. I'm a computer science student, but my ...
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Macbook Pro (March 2011) - Bootcamp Windows crashes when monitor is plugged in
I have a really annoying issue when plugging in an external monitor into my macbook where the computer just freezes. All screens go black, the apple and keyboard are lit up, even if the lid is closed ...
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iPhoto '11 crash on library update after iPhoto '09
I've recently updated iPhoto to the latest version (i've had 8 version before) and no matter what I do it keeps crashing on library update (i've backed up the library before doing anything). After the ...
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iOS & iCloud: Broken iCloud data causes kbd process to crash constantly and drains battery
On Stackoverflow I was told to come here.
Since a few days ago my iPhone 5 is getting unusually warm and the battery drains REALLY quick, like in 4-5 hours. I tried turning all the usual suspecty off ...
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Why would opening the DiagnosticReports folder be preferred to using Console.app?
I already searched Ask Different for "Console.app" and "crash logs".
I was recently searching for a way to access OS X crash logs because I couldn't remember the application that pulled them up. All ...
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Laptop crashed while downloading files using FileZilla, now those files only show up in FileZilla browser and can't be overwritten. How to delete?
My laptop crashed while downloading files using FileZilla. Now those files only show up in the FileZilla browser and they can't be overwritten. I can't see them in Finder or in Terminal. How do ...
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iPhoto, Textedit, iCal and Preview problems - Keeps crashing when launched
im having issues with my mac i dont know whats causing this problem. whenever im going launch iCal it crashes same goes with TextEdit and preview too. iPhoto has issues too if launched, it it keeps on ...
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Automator crashes on Lion, error: Exited abnormally: Broken pipe: 13
I wrote a workflow to check battery duration, on osx 10.8.3 works perfectly and on 10.7.5 crash after a random time.
In console I get this error:
com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ...
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Unexpected system crash upon sleep
Last night I put my macbookpro9,1 (running 10.8.3) to sleep by closing the lid; this morning I found out it had been shutdown completely.
I can't explain this behavior; my paranoid side suspects an ...
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TimeCapsule crashes OS X in every backup in PowerNap
From connection of TimeCapsule / TimeMachine setup my MacBook crashes every night when it tries to do the backup on PowerNap. I find it restarted in the morning not sleeping in state I left it.
When ...
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Blackberry lingering on like a hair in a biscuit
I found some "similar" questions but none of them applied. I used to have a Blackberry. I now have an I-phone, hence the no need for the Blackberry software. I clicked and dragged the icon to the ...
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iPhone 4S crash logs after iOS 6 updates - hardware or software malfunction?
After updating the phone to iOS 6 I've noticed decrease in battery life and after checking in diagnostics data saw daily entries of crash logs like this:
Date:2013-02-26 00:02:36 +0000
Incident ...
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iPad mini, reminders doesn't seem to work
Reminders app in iPad mini doesn't allow for typing in reminders, and dictation through Siri doesn't work to set reminders either. Also, when the edit button is pressed in the reminders app, it ...
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Occasional hard crashes
I have a 3 year old Mac Pro, with an original HD and in SSD that I installed myself about 1 year ago. All software updates and Mt Lion are installed. It has worked flawlessly.
Recently the computer ...
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Xserver crashing, logs are incomplete as to why
We are currently running an OS X Server, and for the past month or two, it has been crashing around the same times. There is no rhyme or reason as to why, and the logs do not tell a full picture as to ...
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Mountain Lion screen crashes after returning from sleep
During the past 3 days I have experienced the following issue: when returning from sleep, I see an extremely garbled version of my desktop. The only thing that seems to help is a reboot.
My first ...
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iTunes 10.7.0.21 (and earlier) on Windows 7 64bit crashes when converting to AAC
[Also posted in the Apple Support Communities, where it has not received any responses so far.]
iTunes crashes very consistently whenever I try to convert songs to AAC format. Sometimes I can get ...
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Apple iPad - intermittently crashing
I've inherited a 1st generation iPad. It seems to work fine, except for the reason I inherited it, which is that every so often, whichever app is running will simply close for no discernible reason. ...
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Macbook getting stuck after wakeup on 10.8.0
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, my MacBook has been stuck twice in a way that every app slowly becomes unresponsive, including menu bar (but a bit surprisingly, not Dock).
The only symptoms common ...
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itunes match crashing on upload
I've got some dj sets from Soundcloud that I want to include in my itunes match library but when I try to sync it always crashes. How can I find out exactly why? They are below the 200mb size limit. ...
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Mail and Entourage causes system hang
I have been using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Build 10K549 for over a year now.
I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 with 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. I also have 2 cores.
I usually use Microsoft Entourage 2008 Version ...
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Safari - Why history. in JavaScript console reloads the page?
Why history. in JavaScript console reloads the page?
Demo: http://youtu.be/ummt-Sb53R0
Safari: 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)
OSX: 10.7.4 -- Build 11E53
It seems it crashes something, because when i switch to ...
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OS X Lion Safari, Chrome and Firefox crashing while trying to access caixa.gov.br account
For months I'm having problems accessing this link https://internetbanking.caixa.gov.br/SIIBC/index.processa from caixa.gov.br
It only works when I use Opera, but it fails on Chrome, Safari and ...
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iPhoto 9.2.1 crashes on open
iPhoto 9.2.1 crashes within seconds of opening. I'm running OSX 10.6.8.
I have tried deleting and re-installing iPhoto. I have also tried rebuilding the library using iPhoto Manager. Any ideas?
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Internet Sharing causes System Preferences to crash!
OK, every single time that I go to sharing in system preferences and click the internet box, it crashes and unexpectedly quits.
I have no clue why this keeps happening, I have restarted my computer, ...
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Jailbroken iPad enters safe mode while Wi-Fi syncing
When I arrive at my house, I manually start Wi-Fi Sync (Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync > Sync Now) to back up my data. But sometimes my iPad crashes into Safe Mode during this process.
I ...
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switching spaces causes finder to crash/restart
I'm using Spaces on Mac OS X 10.6.7. Recently, several times a day, when I switch spaces using a hot-key (Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, etc.), the Finder application crashes and restarts. That's moderately ...
