ArchiCAD crashing on launch (not in Safe Boot mode)

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ArchiCAD crashing on launch (not in Safe Boot mode)

I upgraded to Snow Leopard yesterday. I backed up my Mac using SuperDuper!, then installed SL.

I am having this issue with Graphisoft ArchiCAD, which up until yesterday worked fine: it crashes a few seconds to a minute into its launch.

If I reboot into Safe Boot mode, ArchiCAD works. Then again, I have some fonts issues with it (basically with some extra greek fonts I have) which I didn't have until the upgrade to Snow Leopard.

Any ideas as to why it works in Safe Boot, but it crashes when my system is booted up normally?

Many thanks as always, people.

MBP 17" 2.4GHz, PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz, Mac OS X (10.6), TiBook 550MHz Gigabit Ethernet, B/W G3, Win2K, WinXP

Posted on May 30, 2010 7:20 AM

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Answer 1

May 31, 2010 1:09 PM in response to Alex Zachopoulos

Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
I am having this issue with Graphisoft ArchiCAD, which up until yesterday worked fine: it crashes a few seconds to a minute into its launch.

If you've already checked with the vendor to assure that your version is the latest and is compatible with Snow Leopard, I'd launch the Console utility and in the log list column navigate to FILES -> ~/Library/Logs -> CrashReporter. Look there for a crash report for ArchiCAD. If you find one, post the details here and someone may be able to spot something that explains the problem.

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Answer 2

May 31, 2010 11:41 PM in response to William-Boyd-Jr

Thanks for offering, William!

As it happens, I managed to identify the culprit: a font which in Leopard worked fine (and which even in SL passed validation) was causing ArchiCAD to crash. I have now disabled it and all is well.

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