MuggsMcGinnis
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Q: Upgraded to El Capitan and now TextEdit crashes on execution

I upgraded to El Capitan this morning and since then TextEdit crashes every time I try to load it. It has maybe 50 or 70 files open... maybe it's choking when

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 6, 2015 2:33 PM

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Q: Upgraded to El Capitan and now TextEdit crashes on execution

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  • by help4Share,

    help4Share help4Share Oct 15, 2015 3:06 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Oct 15, 2015 3:06 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    I am having the same problems.  I get a TextEdit quit unexpectedly error message.

  • by MuggsMcGinnis,

    MuggsMcGinnis MuggsMcGinnis Nov 10, 2015 2:54 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Nov 10, 2015 2:54 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    How can I reinstall TextEdit?

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Nov 10, 2015 4:49 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Nov 10, 2015 4:49 PM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    You would have to reinstall the OS or download the installer and use Pacifist to extract the application.

  • by ptbarber,

    ptbarber ptbarber Feb 20, 2016 8:25 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Feb 20, 2016 8:25 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    I had this issue with TextEdit and Preview. Deleting the com.apple.xxx files in ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Components as suggested on other forums didn't help. At best it solved the issue for a couple of days.

     

    Problem was coming from wrong permissions on some font files. Repairing permissions on the Fonts folder solved my issue.

    Open Terminal and type

     

        sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs /Library/Fonts/

     

    You will be asked for your password (sudo means get super user powers)

    Repairing permissions used to be available from the Disk Utility app but Apple removed it since Mavericks or Yosemite for some reason.

  • by WestG,

    WestG WestG Apr 10, 2016 5:47 PM in response to ptbarber
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    Apr 10, 2016 5:47 PM in response to ptbarber

    TextEdit crashed all the time after I installed El Capitan. I even took the MacBookPro to Apple and they ended up doing a clean re-install of El Capitan which didn't help. But after a lot of web searching I saw a mention of Fonts. I had changed the fonts for TextEdit in Preferences - the Rich Text to Palatino. So I changed both fonts back to their default: Menlo Regular for Plain Text and Helvetica for Rich Text. No crashing since then. This might be chance but I thought I'd pass it on.

  • by Fred Ehmann,

    Fred Ehmann Fred Ehmann Jun 8, 2016 10:58 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Jun 8, 2016 10:58 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    Textedit was constantly crashing. I tried repairing font permissions as suggested by ptbarber. Text edit again quit unexpectedly. I reopened the app, and reset all prefs to default. So far, this seems to have solved the problem. Maybe the combination of those two attempts?

  • by macjack,

    macjack macjack Jun 8, 2016 11:02 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Jun 8, 2016 11:02 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    Try starting in Safe Mode and see if the problem still occurs?

    Restart holding the "shift" key.

    (Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)

  • by MuggsMcGinnis,

    MuggsMcGinnis MuggsMcGinnis Jun 8, 2016 3:41 PM in response to macjack
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    Jun 8, 2016 3:41 PM in response to macjack

    Thanks.

     

    No luck. Even in safe mode Text Edit won't load. Unexpected termination or something... sorry I didn't remember the exact error message. I tried the reload option but that did the same thing.

  • by gricha2380,

    gricha2380 gricha2380 Aug 31, 2016 6:50 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis
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    Aug 31, 2016 6:50 AM in response to MuggsMcGinnis

    My issue was also due to a font I deleted. What worked for me was removing this folder: ~Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit

     

    Once I reopened TextEdit, the com.apple.TextEdit folder regenerated itself and the program was finally stable again.