For some time now whenever I try to start Accordance on my old Powerbook by double-clicking the program icon, it crashes on start up. I get an "Accordance unexpectedly quit, error type 1" notice before I can do anything. If, however, I double click on a saved window (but not a tabbed workspace!), then Accordance starts fine. I can open a new workspace and create as many tabs as I want, with no further problems-until I quit and try to restart.
This all started some time ago when I copied an updated version of a user tool onto my Powerbook, replacing an older version with the same name. My (possibly faulty?) memory is that when it started, I couldn't open a saved tabbed workspace without it crashing, but I just tried to do so, and I had no trouble, which is a relief. I've been rebuilding my workspaces every session; now I know I don't have to!
I'm running the 68K version of Accordance 6.9.1 on a Powerbook 1400 running system 8. I can't upgrade it to 6.9.2 because downloaded Accordance installers don't work properly on the Powerbook: they erase the old version of Accordance, but refuse to install a new version in its place. I can only successfully install Accordance onto that machine with a CD installer which allows me to copy over the 68K version of the program.
Would I be correct in guessing that I have corrupt preference files? Do I need to trash the whole folder, or just certain preference files?
Thanks for putting up with all the oddities of old Mac OS systems and even older Macs!
Crash on startup
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Lorinda H. M. Hoover
, Mar 30 2006 10:06 PM
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Lorinda H. M. Hoover
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 10:06 PM
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 10:32 PM
I would look for a startup session in the Accordance settings folder and delete that.
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Posted 01 April 2006 - 04:43 PM
Well, it looks like I have to apologize for taking up your time! On a whim, I decided to try starting up Accordance directly one more time before deleting the start-up session, and it worked like a dream. I don't know what happened to straighten things out, other than the "threat" of having contacted technical support, but it's working, and I'm not about to complain.
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