Re: Crashes related to garbage collection?

FROM : Bill Bumgarner
DATE : Mon May 26 22:47:50 2008

On May 26, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> Both of these look like the crashes you frequently get using Open 
> (NSOpenPanel) dialogs in a GC app. It's a known problem, with no 
> known workaround that I've seen (although someone did suggest that 
> throwing away the app's preferences file might reduce the frequency 
> of the crashes for a while).


The media browser in the open panel has a tendency to blow up GC'd 
apps.  Unfortunately, if you select the media browser in any 
application, it will be the default selected item in the open panel in 
all applications.

You should be able to workaround it by nuking the related preference 
item.

b.bum