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Troubleshoot Mac application crashes:

It's true: ocassionally Mac applications crash. Happily Macworld's got the rundown for what to do when it happens, including the age old cureall - rebooting. But my favorite tip is to check out the console logs, really helpful text documents that constantly update with the state of your Mac.

Launch OS X's Console utility (/Applications/Utilities). Click on the Logs button in the toolbar. From the list on the left, locate the CrashReporter folders (in your user folder/ Library/Logs and in /Library/Logs). In these folders are logs for every application on your Mac that has ever crashed.

Find the log file with the name of your problem program and select it. The output you'll see here is too technical for most people. But occasionally you'll find a clue to the cause of the crash -- for example, a reference to a problematic plug-in.

(Via Lifehacker.)

# posted by Khaled A. @ 6:18 PM