Hi all,
I am on 10.6.1 and Numbers (08, 1.0.3) crash every time I try to add a chart, open an existing file with a chart or start a template with a chart in it.
Charts work just fine in Keynote and Pages, so it's not an graphics issue.
Any ideas please?
2.53 '09 10.6 MBP, 2.4 '08 10.5.6 MBP, 20" iMac '09 10.5.6,
Mac OS X (10.6),
mighty mouse, iPods, iPhone 3Gs
check if it strikes every documents or only one
repair permissions
disable the Numbers preferences which may be corrupted
test the way it behaves from an other user account.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 12 septembre 2009 18:31:17
(1) Apple ones offer by default to install it in the main application folder:
*Macintosh HD:Applications:*
But you are asked if you wish to install for a single user.
In this case you must define the applications folder of this user acount:
*Macintosh HD:Users:<yourAccount>:Applications:*
(2) Most of third parties editors use an other scheme. They deliver their app in a disk image where you find the application and an alias of the main applications folder.
If you drag the app in this alias, the tool will be stored in Two categories of installers are available.
(1) Apple ones offer by default to install it in the main application folder:
*Macintosh HD:Applications:* and exery user will be able to use it.
But we are free beeings.
We may drag & dop the âpplication of our user's Application folder.
An easy tip is to create an alias of this private applications folder on the desktop so it will be easy to install the apps in the private application folder.
An alternate soluce (the one which I use) is to put the alias ouf my private application folder in the dock.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 18 octobre 2009 12:47:27
I made a User for 3rd-party applications (and moved Adobe Photoshop Elements and VMWare Fusion there -haven't tried my other nemsis, Skype, there yet). So far, the Numbers files with charts in them seems stable. One chart which has disappeared even re-appeared. But it's early days yet.
That raised "permissions" issues, and I realize that isn't this forum's topic, not this thread's.
I need my "3rd-party" user (me) to have access to the files of my usual user (also me). So, I ended up on the "Get Info" pane, adjusting permissions, and yes I clicked "include enclosed items" for my own Home folder, so that's caused issues on the small home network I'm running. I can't find anywhere how just to take things back to OS X 6's default permissions. I can't find them documented and the Disk Utility
repairs but not
restore permissions. The main things are that:
1/ I wasn't aware of how inheritance worked, so basically if I restrict my Home folder up tight then apparently I can't "relax" a child folder within it (although it looks so on the Get Info pane). This has toasted my Public and Drop Box folders - they're not working properly any more. I've tried adjusting things, to no avail.
2/ Conversely, at one point, I inadvertently opened up my Home folder to the whole network. "Correcting" that seemed to cause the point #1 problem.
3/ I have downloaded and tried a free program called "Permission Reset" but I'm not sure that it quite did the Public and Drop Box folder resets properly, let alone any others - they still seem fluey from other logins and other computers on the network.
4/ I do have File Sharing working, etc.
5/ I don't use the "lock file/folder" box on the Get Info pane.
6/ I think that the orginal behaviour of the Public and Drop Box folders was "special", not completely defined by the visible sharing settings.
Also, it's quite inconvenient having to switch logins frequently, even with fast-switching turned on. I use Fusion interactively with my other software very regularly. I can reintroduce programs to my main login one at a time, I suppose, and see how that goes.
I may post this elsewhere later if I need to.
But ... Numbers seems to be working again! Up until this maneuver, it was not.
Thanks again.
Charles
P.S. I spent way too long reading about POSIX and ACL and Terminal commands ... none of which got me very far.
And, Yvan, in fact it has again happened that Numbers has crashed, even with Adobe Photoshop Elements and VMWare Fusion removed to a different User. I have managed to remove the charts, which were not essential, from the files, and hope I can carry on like that.
So, in the meantime, I may gradually move these programs back to my primary User login. (I may try Skype first.) Much more convenient. Good to know how to isolate them, however, if I ever need to in future!
Of course, I neglected to check until now: there are lots of remnants of those old applications sitting around my main User login, esp. Fusion, but also Photoshop, in /Library/Application Support, mainly, but a little in /Library/Preferences. Perhaps I didn't uninstall them properly. (Why does Mac OS X allow me just to drag them off if I shouldn't be doing that?) And I can't find anything like a specific uninstaller for either of them anywhere.
What's weirder is that on my new "3rd-party" User login, I find configuration files for software which i left in the main /Applications folder and haven't touched, although I have used it on the 3rd-party User login. The folder is /{3rd-party-apps-folder}/Library, and then there are plist files and lots of other files and folders relating to software which I haven't moved, but only
used.
