After application crashes, always have re-open as an option...

shadowbottle · 01-01-2007, 04:17 PM

Hey all... I could have sworn I'd read a hint here about this in the past but I've exhausted all my searching skills trying to find it, so I'm hoping someone here remembers it or knows a solution which could be turned into a hint.

I often find myself testing some beta software and experience crashes, some times repeatedly. The issues have already been reported in most of these instances. Upon the first crash of an application one of the menu options available is to "Reopen..." the application after the unexpected crash, but after the second you can only Close and Report. Is there a way to always get the option to re-open the application instead of having to close it?

Thanks in advance!
ShaBot

SivuGamak · 01-02-2007, 05:58 AM

When you click on the Reopen button in the "unexpectedly quit" dialog, a property called ApplicationCrashedAfterRelaunch (with a value of 1) is added to the application's preferences (.plist) file. If you were to manually delete the ApplicationCrashedAfterRelaunch property before the next crash, the "unexpectedly quit" dialog would still show the Reopen button.

Got this from Ted Landau's Mac OS X Help Line Tiger Edition.

shadowbottle · 01-02-2007, 03:06 PM

Ah.. blast. Well thanks... sounds effective enough. Maybe I can script it or some such. I had just thought there was a way to keep it from ever flipping from 0 to 1 or some such.
*sigh*
Thanks though, man! I appreciate the response!
ShaBot

sox · 01-02-2007, 05:41 PM

I think there's a secondary side effect to this that you may want to investigate. On most applications after the second crash, the re-open turns to the "retry" (IIRC). the difference is that retry temporarliy deletes the preferences plist for the application when it opens. Thus it is sort of a handy if kludgy way to workaround a corrupt preferences file for unsophisiticated users.

01-01-2007, 04:17 PM	#1
shadowbottle Prospect Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 6	After application crashes, always have re-open as an option... Hey all... I could have sworn I'd read a hint here about this in the past but I've exhausted all my searching skills trying to find it, so I'm hoping someone here remembers it or knows a solution which could be turned into a hint. I often find myself testing some beta software and experience crashes, some times repeatedly. The issues have already been reported in most of these instances. Upon the first crash of an application one of the menu options available is to "Reopen..." the application after the unexpected crash, but after the second you can only Close and Report. Is there a way to always get the option to re-open the application instead of having to close it? Thanks in advance! ShaBot

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01-02-2007, 05:58 AM	#2
SivuGamak Triple-A Player Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 85	When you click on the Reopen button in the "unexpectedly quit" dialog, a property called ApplicationCrashedAfterRelaunch (with a value of 1) is added to the application's preferences (.plist) file. If you were to manually delete the ApplicationCrashedAfterRelaunch property before the next crash, the "unexpectedly quit" dialog would still show the Reopen button. Got this from Ted Landau's Mac OS X Help Line Tiger Edition.

01-02-2007, 03:06 PM	#3
shadowbottle Prospect Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 6	Ah.. blast. Well thanks... sounds effective enough. Maybe I can script it or some such. I had just thought there was a way to keep it from ever flipping from 0 to 1 or some such. sigh Thanks though, man! I appreciate the response! ShaBot

01-02-2007, 05:41 PM	#4
sox Major Leaguer Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 252	I think there's a secondary side effect to this that you may want to investigate. On most applications after the second crash, the re-open turns to the "retry" (IIRC). the difference is that retry temporarliy deletes the preferences plist for the application when it opens. Thus it is sort of a handy if kludgy way to workaround a corrupt preferences file for unsophisiticated users.