Apple Books keeps crashing

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Apple Books keeps crashing

I have an early 2015 MacBook Air, with OS 10.14.1. Using my account Books crashes after about a second. an error report opens up. Clicking Reopen results in the app opening and crashing again. Books still crashes with the MacBook in Safe Mode. Opening Books under the MacBook Guest account is OK, and I am able to open a test PDF without crashing.

I conclude that the Books App under my account has a corrupt library file. Trouble is that I am unable to open Books long enough to clear the library or diagnose the problem. Any suggestions as to how I can overcome this problem?

MacBook Air

Posted on Dec 7, 2018 12:31 AM

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kiwibrit Author

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Dec 11, 2018 8:32 AM in response to kiwibrit

A similar problem happened on my Mini Mac. For both going to System Preferences | iCloud | iCloud Drive and deselecting Books has stopped the crashing. I conclude that there is a file corruption on iCloud. Is there any way of flushing Books file storage on iCloud?

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kiwibrit Author

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Dec 12, 2018 1:57 AM in response to kiwibrit

For both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air, de-selecting and then reselecting Books in iCloud Drive solved the Books crashing problem.

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