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Identity is not the problem
Authored by: leebennett on Jan 24, '03 11:07:42AM

i had worked with an MS support person by e-mail for several weeks trying to solve why e-rage unexpectedly quit on me once in a while. we tried all variety of things, including a temporary new identity, which didn't solve it.

the only thing we could come up with is that there is something about my OS X user setup that is causing it. i had temporarily created a completely new/fresh OS X user, and _only_ set it up to use e-rage. it never quit on me then, so the MS tech said the last thing she could recommend was to migrate to a new user on my machine. *sigh* that's more effort than i'm willing to deal with now.

there had been some tips about a corrupt GlobalPreferences.plist file that can cause apps to quit. you can't just delete it because the corrupted information might be written back from cache when the plist file is recreated, so you have to create a new user, copy over the plist file from there, fix the owner information, and go through a few re-logins in the process.

well, doing this actually solved 1 or 2 other problems i was having, so i was happy to have done this, but e-rage still quits.

hmm, although i don't seem to recall it happening as often in recent days. that just occurred to me. hah, you watch, now that i said it, it'll do it again!



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