Re: [Summary-Talk] Mac OS X Summary 2.6.4 Error

[Jason Linhart <summary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We think that we found the cause of the problem you (Mark Jacobson) were 
having. More recent versions of Summary crash (or occasionally hang) on 
OS X 10.2.x if the folder containing Summary, or any of the other 
folders containing that folder back to the disk drive name, contain any 
of the following characters:

   , < > / ? '

comma, less than, greater than, slash, question mark, or single quote

On OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x this problem only happens with single quote.

Assuming you have one or more of these characters in one of your folder
names, you should be able to get the most recent version of Summary
working by renaming the folder(s), or moving Summary, so that folders
containing Summary don't use any of those characters in their name.

If you have time to check, I would be interested in finding out if this
is the problem you have been running into.

Thanks
Jason


Mark Jacobson wrote:
> After performing a clean install of Summary 2.6.4, the Summary GUI
> Application is still Unexpectedly Quitting at launch. Here's what I did:
> 
> In Mac OS 10.2.8:
> 1. Quit Summary 2.6.3 GUI Program.
> 2. Removed the Summary Service Command.
> 3. Restarted the computer.
> 4. Used a web browser to verify that Summary was not running.
> 5. Installed Summary 2.6.4.
> 6. Ran the GUI program, which immediately quit with the Unexpected error.
> 7. Verified that Summary was not running with a web browser.
> 8. Tried one more time to launch the GUI.
> 9. It began to load, but hung with the beach ball.
> 10. With a web browser Verified that an unregistered version of Summary 
> was running.
> 11. Launched the GUI again, which immediately crashed.
> 
> So it seems the Summary service will install, but the GUI crashes on my
> setup, which has been running Summary fine with all updates for a couple
> years.

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