{"id":994,"date":"2008-01-31T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/mac-error-applications-quits-unexpectedly\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:34:23","slug":"mac-error-applications-quits-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/mac-error-applications-quits-unexpectedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Error: Applications Quits Unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently encountered a very disturbing problem in Mac OS X Leopard, where the <strong>applications quit unexpectedly<\/strong> without notice and <strong>fails on relaunch attempt<\/strong>. At first it happens to Firefox, Photoshop and few applications that I frequently used; it then crashes other applications like Adium, Mail client, Font Book and apps that I hardly use.<\/p>\n<h2>The Symptoms<\/h2>\n<p>This problem is similar to Window\u2019s \"illegal operation\" that causes software to shutdown automatically without notice. You know you are a victim when an application shuts down by itself, and when you clicked <em><strong>Relaunch<\/strong><\/em> and it will still eventually shut down. Almost any application will behave like that.<\/p>\n<h2>XLab\u2019s Solution<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thexlab.com\/faqs\/multipleappsquit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>XLab<\/strong><\/a> has a good article explaining why the error happens and how you can solve it. I recommend you to read it if you really want to find out what has possibly caused this error.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>My Solution<\/h2>\n<p>The Cause of the error can be subjective, so I did not really run all the 11 troubleshoot steps listed by XLab. Instead, I suspected the error on my Mac was caused by <strong>insufficient RAM<\/strong> so here\u2019s what I\u2019ve done to recover the situation.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>System Preferences<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Dock<\/strong>\n     Minimize using: Scale Effect\n     Unchecked both \"<em><strong>Animate opening applications<\/strong><\/em>\", \"<em><strong>Automatically hide and show the Dock<\/strong><\/em>\" \n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"desc\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/macerror-dock.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Disk Utility<\/strong>, select your harddrive, and click <strong>Verify Disk<\/strong> (or <strong>Repair Disk<\/strong> if necessary)\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"desc\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/macerror-diskutil.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you are using <strong>Adium<\/strong> Instance Messenger, go to <strong>Preferences<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab, under <strong>Contact List<\/strong>, un-check <strong>Animate Changes<\/strong>.\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"desc\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/macerror-adium.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently encountered a very disturbing problem in Mac OS X Leopard, where the applications quit unexpectedly without notice and fails on relaunch attempt. 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