- From the 'Automator' Library, add the 'Ask for Confirmation' action, with a simple message such as "Something Has Crashed"
- From the 'Finder' Library, add the 'Open Finder Items' action.
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Sometimes, things crash in the background, but you need to know immediately. For example, I've installed a virus checker and its folder monitoring sometimes crashes. I want to know this straight away. So I made an Automator app to do just this. Just put in these actions:
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Hint Options
10.4: Use Automator to detect background crashes
Why can't you use CrashReporter's developer mode? In dev mode, application, background and system process crashes are displayed.
At the terminal: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType developer
To revert: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType basic
THAT should be a hint!
I'm curious how you learned something like this and why you hadn't already submitted it as a hint in its own right?
there *was* a hint
10.3: Disable the 'Unexpectedly Quit' dialog box
... found by searching for com.apple.CrashReporter on this site.
10.4: Use Automator to detect background crashes
If you have Developer tools installed there's an app to set this preference: /Developer/Applications/Utilities/CrashReporterPrefs
10.4: Use Automator to detect background crashes
There is one more setting you can enable to completely disable the crash dialog:
10.4: Use Automator to detect background crashes
Explain to us why you need a virus checker on a Mac?
10.4: Use Automator to detect background crashes
Because you use your Mac in a Windows environment and those pesky Word macro viruses (such as Thus.gen) won't go away by themselves. Having AV software is much easier than making sure 1000+ Mac users don't enable macros. |
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