{"id":749,"date":"2010-09-15T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T14:34:29","slug":"chembiodrawchemdraw-segfault-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2010\/09\/15\/chembiodrawchemdraw-segfault-on-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"ChemBioDraw\/ChemDraw segfault on Mac OS X."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user at work reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgesoft.com\/software\/ChemDraw\/\">ChemDraw<\/a> suddenly started segfault-ing (crashing) on startup on his Mac. He&#8217;d opened a support ticket with CambridgeSoft and  tried their suggestions, basically deleting every file associated with ChemDraw and reinstalling, which didn&#8217;t correct the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I suspected that this was an issue with ChemDraw 12.0.2 (I&#8217;m using  12.0.1 and so are other <a href=\"http:\/\/cmld.bu.edu\/\">CMLD<\/a> members for the research lab I support). I suggested that he create a  new user on his Mac and see if ChemDraw works correctly. I reasoned that ChemDraw was upgraded  sometime in the past, and that there may have been some user preferences  causing issues after upgrading, or some preferences settings were corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>If a new user was able to use ChemDraw, then this would indicate  that the installation is valid and working, and the issue is with the  user&#8217;s preferences. If ChemDraw didn&#8217;t work, then the issue is probably  with the installation, and we would need to install the application, and  hunt down any remnants of the installation that may be in \/Library or  \/System and then reinstall 12.0.1 to see if that would resolve the problem.<br \/>\nIn this case, ChemDraw worked for the new user, thus indicating that the issue was not with the installation, but with the user&#8217;s setting. Deleting any files whose name started with com.cambridgesoft files in<\/p>\n<pre>\/Users\/[Your User Name]\/Library\/Preferences<\/pre>\n<p>resolved the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user at work reported that ChemDraw suddenly started segfault-ing (crashing) on startup on his Mac. He&#8217;d opened a support ticket with CambridgeSoft and tried their suggestions, basically deleting every file associated with ChemDraw and reinstalling, which didn&#8217;t correct the problem. I suspected that this was an issue with ChemDraw 12.0.2 (I&#8217;m using 12.0.1 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2010\/09\/15\/chembiodrawchemdraw-segfault-on-mac-os-x\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ChemBioDraw\/ChemDraw segfault on Mac OS X.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,39],"tags":[149,162,183,396,400,541,565],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemdraw","category-tech","tag-cambridgesoft","tag-chemdraw-2","tag-crash","tag-mac-os-x","tag-macosx","tag-segfault","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}