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Leopard Dock crash

Started by paulmwatson · 10 months ago

Like this chap the Dock on Mac OS X (Leopard) kept crashing for me this morning. I also could not switch between running applications using the keyboard anymore (that seems to be a function of the Dock app.)
The problem turned out to be a JPG a co-worker had sent. Preview crashed on openin ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • neil c

    1 year ago

    I'd have to agree. I placed MkConsole (http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/software/MkCons...) on my desktop to keep an eye on logs as they happen. Leopard seems to spew errors compared to Tiger.
    You'd be amazing by the amount of invalid image errors and calls to depreciated libraries.
    External hard-disks also seem to generate huge amounts of warnings on Leopard. Its like a beta rushed to a deadline.
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  • ortho

    1 year ago

    Ha! I'm so glad i found this when i Googled "leopard dock crash". I had the exact same problem and trashing it from the the downloads folder restored the Dock immediately. Great.

    I think i know where the problem may start. Leopard usually renders JPGs fine right? But when i edit one of my lil Canon pix in Lightroom, like changing color and metadata and then Save it in LR, the resulting JPG becomes a Leopard-crasher. If you even point to it in my Finder it crashes it, much less place it in the Downloads folder (which probably shows up in your's and my dock).

    Craappy, but thanks!
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  • DOCKMASTER

    1 year ago

    THANK YOU SAVED MY DAY!
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  • jaldrich

    1 year ago

    Thanks for this..... this couldn't have been a more mind boggling problem... I was beginning to flirt with the idea of reinstalling leopard because i couldn't find a solution to this. After recreating my preferences and running the disk utility I thought all was lost. This is really lame of apple to have that big of a loop hole and no reference of a fix on their site. You saved another persons day.
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  • ash

    1 year ago

    cleared out the Downloads folder after reading this and all is well ...

    thanx ! ^_^
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  • Kate

    1 year ago

    Thank u so much! I couldn't work out why my dock just disappeared ...a dodgy jpg file, who'd have thought it - so tvm for your posting saved me a lot of time, jpg deleted and dock has returned, nice one
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