Messages.app crashing

Hi,

Close Messages if Open

Go to Hard Drive Name/Users/(your account)/Library/Containers/com.apple.ichat/Data/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.ichat.savedState

Drag the contents of this folder to the Trash.

Restart Messages.

(Change the Font as soon as possible)

7:14 pm Sunday; November 3, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

I have the same problem... I tried what you suggested but it didn't work, Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks!

error log:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=4JK3yx7y

(link is valid until 18/1/14)

Hi,

You suggested earlier it is about a Font you chose ?

The app will fail to launch is Helvetica Font is turned Off or has been substituted with Helvetica Fractions.

Also if Lucida Grande is also off some windows will not display properly (mainly the Buddy lists)

Where do you think you have changed a Font ?

Any choices in Messages > Viewing should not effect the start up as they are not needed until you Send or Receive any form of Message.

I would check the Fonts in the Font Book.

You may to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ichat.plist

This will reset all the Preferences and some Menu items of the app.

8:18 pm Tuesday; December 17, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

My problem started when I was trying to annoy some friends, i kept making my font bigger, as soon as I set the font size to "9999", Messages started to hang for a while so I killed its process... now it wont start

I deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ichat.plist and several other configs with no luck, I might try restarting later (cant restart now due to my laptop being a web server)

[Message Deleted]

I've restarted, and still have had no luck, I used "App Cleaner" to track down and delete all preference files linked to messages and still no luck

This might be a bug that needs reporting...

HI,

That does seems to be a bit odd.

The Font for your Outgoing Messages, it's colour, the background colour of the Balloon (or other style) and the size of the font are all held in the com.apple.ichat.plist

If you open the file with Xcode you can expand this section

Try this as it is in Mavericks.

In the Finder > GO Menu hold down the ALT key and select the Library at appears.

Navigate to Containers/com.apple.ichat/Data/Library/Saved Status State/com.apple.iChat.savedState

and delete the contents.

I have the Path Bar on view in my Finder's windows.

8:36 pm Wednesday; December 18, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Slight problem, that directory is already empty 😟

Hi,

Try resetting the PRAM (NVRAM)

Shut down the computer.

Restart it holding down Apple/CMD ( or ⌘)+ALT( ⌥)+P+R Keys until you have heard three Start Up Bongs.

8:30 pm Thursday; December 19, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Resetting PRAM didn't help at all either... I found a time machine backup that I had made on my portable HDD and not even it could fix Messages :/

I just updated from OSX 10.9 to OSX 10.9.1, Which really didn't help with anything other than messages took some time before showing the crash report

As there are usually differences between updates I'm going to upload the latest error report: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=0p1TdAvG(link is valid until 21/1/14)

Ok, In one of your earlier comments I noticed you showed me some of the font values from messages, So I tried force-feeding Messages with some fonts via xCode

Before:

After:

Still no luck 😟

Im starting to lose hope in this problem 😟

Should I just reinstall OSX 10.9?

HI,

Time consuming as it is it does seem the Reinstall is the way to go now.

9:10 pm Saturday; December 21, 2013

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

ok, I'll do that later on today when I find my recovery usb >.<

I feel as though I kind of took over AkdMs thread 😀