AW: multiple crashes with OS 10.8.4 and 6.0.2 community

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Do you have any Unicode chars in your text?
I just had crashes because of Unicode in the stack title with 6.0.2.
Not a solution, but perhaps a trace.
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
> von Timothy Miller
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013 08:27
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: multiple crashes with OS 10.8.4 and 6.0.2 community
> 
> I've experienced half a dozen crashes in the past hour or two with the
same
> stack. I haven't yet had a chance to investigate the possibility of
similar
> problems on other stacks.
> 
> It's a very simple and ordinary stack, except that it has about 1600
cards.
> I store a lot of text in this stack.  Most of the text is in one field,
> spread out over the 1600 cards. About a million words of text altogether.
> 
> This stack has been very well-behaved for several years. I have made no
> changes to it recently, except to add a few more cards and some more text.
> 
> It's crashed three times in the past hour. The kind of crash that seems to
> happen instantly. The application quits and the OS generates a crash
report
> to send to Apple. If other applications are open, they are not affected.
> 
> In addition, in the past hour, on two or three other occasions, when
simply
> entering text, or cutting and pasting text, in the same field, on the same
> card, strange characters started showing up in place of text. In some
> cases, a crash came next. In other cases, I was able to erase the strange
> characters and continue entering text.
> 
> Sometimes the crash came when I was entering text. In other cases, just
> scrolling through the stack with go next and go prev, with a simple visual
> effect.
> 
> I used this stack last night and this morning, at length, also with LC
> 6.0.2 Community. No problems then.
> 
> The machine, a late 2009 MacBook with 8 GB RAM, is otherwise working
> normally.
> 
> This stack is very important to me. Data loss or corruption would be very,
> very bad. (Of course I am backed up.)
> 
> Any thoughts? Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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