Preview always crashes on launch
To being, yes, I've searched this forum and found other threads so-titled, but none of the advice I read there helped me; hence this new thread.
I am running OS 10.8.4 on a 2009 DuoCore iMac.
The problem began today when I tried to open a bad TIFF file in Preview that was stored on my Time Capsule. (No I didn't know the TIFF file was bad before I attempted opening it.) The bad file caused Preview to crash. I've since deleted the file but Preview continues to crash every time I launch it.
Yes, I've gone into /Library/Containers/ and deleted out that Preview folder. Deleting that does no good. That folder merely gets recreated when I launch Preview again, and Preview stupidly crashes again.
Here is what Console says when I try to launch Preview:
Sep 6 11:06:14 James-iMac com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[235] ([0x0-0x638638].com.apple.Preview[7122]): Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction: 4
Sep 6 11:06:14 James-iMac.local ReportCrash[7124]: Saved crash report for Preview[7122] version 6.0.1 (765.6) to /Users/james/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Preview_2013-09-06-110614_James-iMa c.crash
Sep 6 11:06:15 James-iMac.local dirhelper[7112]: mkdir(/var/folders/0y): No such file or directory
Sep 6 11:06:16 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Sep 6 11:06:16 James-iMac.local dirhelper[7112]: mkdir(/var/folders/zz): No such file or directory
And when I try to launch Preview, the relevant info in the crash report seems to be the following two lines:
Application Specific Information:
Bug in libxpc: Could not obtain valid temporary directory for sandboxed app.
My guess is this crash is perpetually happening because Preview is try to reopen files I tried to open before, thanks to that silly feature which was born in Lion. You would think Apple would have programmed Preview (or any other app) to be smart enough to figure out that if it tries to reopen a document that resulted in a crash previously, it should not try to open it again! But alas, there is no such intelligence in Preview.
Please help!
Thank you.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), March 2009 DuoCore, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD