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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Mac shuts down when trying to download software update
I want to download the 10.6.8 combo update but every time I try it, my computer just shuts down. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? I am currently using 10.6. I had been using 10.6.8 but i ...
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Computer keeps crashing after I replaced the RAM
I have an early 2010 MacBook Pro. I just upgraded the RAM to 8GB because I was constantly using more than 4GB. I have upgraded to flash storage as well so I didn't want my system constantly using ...
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Chrooted processes crash with SIGBUS on Mac OS X 10.8.4
I'm trying to create chroot environment with Mac OS X 10.6 on Mac OS X 10.8.4. I've created disk image, installed Mac OS X 10.6.3 and combo update to 10.6.8 on it. When I run chroot ...
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iPhone randomly reboots into safe mode when opening apps
Today when I opened my Beststream app, my iPhone boots into Safe Mode. This has happend to me alot this year. I don't like this as all because sometimes, I restart into safe mode, and other times, I ...
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Why does a string of arabic characters crash Safari and other web browsers?
I was reading an article about a problem with Mac and iOS. Why does this string of Arabic characters
crash Mac computers running Safari?
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Outlook 2011 crashing constantly (Mountain Lion)
I recently tried to send a video file that was too large via Outlook. Spinning wheel, then Outlook started crashing. Managed eventually to delete the email from my outbox, but Outlook now crashes ...
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kernel panic after starting quicktime video
I'm getting a kernel panic whenever I start a movie in quicktime player
When does it happen
I'm running OSX on an SSD, which was installed in place of my optical drive. I'm trying to open a file on ...
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Final Cut Pro X crashes when using transform tool
Starting from some update of the Final Cut Pro X (~ 10.0.7) I have started to experience frequent crashes of the Final Cut when using the transform tool.
It doesn't seem to crash when setting ...
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My iPod touch 4g crashed and iTunes will not verify restore
My iPod touch 4g crashed and iTunes will not verify restore. The apple logo will pop up and stay there until it dies. Ive already tried putting it into recovery mode and DFU mode. Nothing is working. ...
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Boot drive (SSD) going read-only randomly
I've got a mid-2010 MBP running OS X 10.8.4. I've got a Sandisk SSD as my boot drive in my Super Bay and a 1.5TB hard disk in my HD bay. (I realize I could get better SSD performance if I swapped ...
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Frequent Kernel Panics on Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I recently bought a used MacbookPro5,1 with a 2,4 Ghz Core2Duo Processor. It was upgraded to 4 GB of RAM and a 750GB HDD by the previous owner. When I received it 2 days ago, it was running 10.6.3, I ...
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Macbook crashes at startup after process bar appears
Today the Macbook pro I purchased in December got quite slow, and so I decided to reboot it. I restarted it normally through the system, but it had not started up when I checked few minutes later. ...
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How to diagnose an SMC in bad state?
I'm experiencing arepeated application(s) crashes on a mid 2010 MacBook Pro (6,2) running Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
I don't have any of the symptoms described in the Apple KB:
Intel-based Macs: Resetting ...
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Crash analysis on MacOS X
I see irregular crashes of programs on a MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.6.8 since July the 9th: 13 crashes.
Most of them occur when the screen is locked with the screen saver.
The last system ...
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My Mac crashes when it runs out of RAM
I have a perplexing problem with my Macbook Pro (16GB RAM, OS X 10.8.4). If I use up all my main memory, the computer crashes. The screen freezes on whatever window it was on (not a kernel panic), and ...
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OS X Lion never boots
When starting up my iMac with OS X Lion 1.7.3 it will show the Apple logo, and soon after a progress bar with the typical spinning progress indicator. The progress bar will go up to about 8%, ...
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how i can read macbook crash report?
i have macbook model 2009 that is crashing i dont understnad why is this happening
Sun Jul 7 00:28:01 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80084b8655): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8008462af0, type 13=general ...
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Location of iTunes Playlists (for restore after crash)
My computer crashed and I lost everything. But, due to the awesomeness of Backblaze, I have all of my files and libraries and music, so nothing's lost. The problem is... all of my playlists that I've ...
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fsck_hfs keeps crashing when trying to repair my Time Machine volume
I've got my Time Machine volume (direct attached, USB) corrupted by accidentally flicking the switch while it's running. Now neither Disk Utility nor fsck_hfs can repair the drive.
Investigating it ...
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Finder doesn't come back after crash or `killall`
This has been happening for quite a while (since before I upgraded to 10.8, I think), although I'm running 10.8.4 currently; I'm on an iMac from 2012. Every once in a while Finder will freeze up for ...
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When I plug my iPod into my Macbook Pro it crashes iTunes
Why does iTunes crash on my Macbook Pro when I plug in my iPod Nano to sync?
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Gtk2 randomly crashes
I have a small program in C that I wanted to add a GUI to, so after looking around I decided to use GTK+. I installed gtk2 using MacPorts (version installed was gtk2 @2.24.18_1+x11).
I am compiling ...
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Finder crashes permanently
I bought an SSD for my Macbook Pro. I did a backup of my hdd disk (as I always do with Time Machine) and used the disk utility to restore that backup to my ssd disk. The restore worked perfectly, but ...
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Any advice on troubleshooting instability in Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.4?
In all cases of crashes, I can SSH to the machine, but I can't figure out anything useful to remedy the situation.
This freeze happened when sizing the crop in Aperture. Machine had been running for ...
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Any need to verify disks after hard reboot?
About every few days I need to reboot my 2012 MacBook Pro Retina.
I noticed these messages in the logs regarding "Journal is read-only and journal is dirty. Can not mount volume".
Any need to ...
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iTunes crashes after playing certain files
I can't exactly remember when this started to happen, probably after a software update, but my iTunes suddenly can't play 2 songs and 2 videos (apparently only these). When I try to play them, iTunes ...
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Mac crashing suddenly and restart
My Mac keeps on crashing around 5 times a day which is very annoying. It just turns off all of a sudden and than start again... Crash log is provided below. Any idea as to what may cause this?
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Should I reinstall the OS after restoring from time machine?
A while back, my MacBook Pro died. It was an older machine (2007 I think), with a Core 2 Duo processor. I was doing regular backups through Time Machine. I bought a I7 MBP, and re-staged the new ...
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Mac OS X 10.8 crashes after Thunderbolt display disconnect and sleep
At work I run my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (with Mac OS X 10.8.3 Snow Leopard) lid-closed with two Thunderbolt displays.
If I disconnect the power and displays, walk to a conference room, and re-open ...
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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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Can I force finder to open without loading previous files?
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and ...
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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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Finder crashes constantly
On an iMac 10,1 running Mac OS X 10.6.8, Finder crashes on every startup.
Safe Boot does not work around the problem.
When I log in normally, the Finder Crashed error messages always steal focus. ...
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Mac crash after installing XCode
I tried installing XCode on my MacBook Pro, but for some reason, it suddenly crashed. After a reboot, I saw a message my computer had to restart because of some system failure. After this message, I ...
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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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Outlook 2011 crashes when connecting to Exchange server
The problem started this morning when Outlook 2011 tried to connect to the Exchange server looking for new emails. An error message came up saying that Outlook needs to close (see screenshot).
I can ...
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Terminal: Application Not Responding
A few days ago, Terminal.app suddenly stopped working. Whenever I open it, the little light below the icon in the dock turns on (and stays on), but no window appears. When I right-click the icon, I'm ...
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How to find cause of repeated reboots?
I have been having issues with my mid-2009 Mac Pro ever since I installed Mountain Lion. First it was intermittent kernel panics; I did some research and found that this is an ML bug that's triggered ...
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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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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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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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mac crashed while installing mountain lion - cable disconnect
I downloaded mountain lion on my mbp which is run by snow leopard atm. I started to install it and waited for the installation to end. When it came down to the last 12-11 minutes, I ended my ...
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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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How to avoid a forced shutdown or crash when the MagSafe is plugged in and got loose?
The new MagSafe for the current Macbook Air isn't very strong for its magnetic force, so it can become loose easily. Today I left the Macbook Air unplugged and it went into sleep, and after I plugged ...
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Instapaper freezing on startup due to problematic article
I added an article to Instpaper on my iPod Touch, and then I opened the article. It crashed Instapaper, so I deleted the article through my browser and then reopened Instapaper. Now Instapaper freezes ...
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Apps that were active won't launch after crash
im having a really strange problem here. My macbook air running mountain lion locked on me so i held the power button down to restart it. When it restarted, the OS offered to reopen the apps I had ...
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AppStore crashed during software update
I was using my computer normally when I got a "Updates Available" notification.
On selecting to update, the App Store opened, and I saw 3 updates available:
1) iTunes
2) Java (I have never installed ...
