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Messages app blows up upon opening

Messages app is blowing up open opening...

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Oct 15, 2020 4:27 PM

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Oct 15, 2020 8:33 PM in response to John Galt

Thank you John. "Blow up" ~ it would start to open and then "blow" as in "break, disappear, stop opening, and the malfunction window would open up with the software scripts (that I don't know an iota of...! I copied this in case it was needed:

EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY


Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb

Terminating Process: exc handler [26666]


Separately, there was an update for the Beta version of Big Sur and after the hours that stuff takes to load, the problem went away. It works well. SO, I have no idea what happened, nor how did it got fixed. But! I appreciate your itetion of assisting and supporting. Thank you so much!

Messages app blows up upon opening

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