[Ti] post-10.2.5 observation (Acrobat Crashes)

[Simon Chapman]

At 10:02 am +0200 18/4/03, Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>At 00:24 -0500 18-4-2003, Dennis Fazio wrote:
>>--On Thursday, April 17, 2003 01:41 PM +0200 "Trevor J. Hutley"
>><hutley at geneva-link.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Since installing 10.2.5, I have observed that Acrobat (5..0.5)
>>>quits everytime that it launches (which it does automatically,
>>>everytime that I download a PDF file).
>>>
>>>If I launch it manually, it also quits.
>>>
>>>Has anyone else noticed an apparent incompatibility of Acrobat 505
>>>with 10.2.5 ?
>>>
>>
>>This is not a 10.2.5 issue, since it has happened to me on 10.2.4
>>and to others on previous OS X versions. I did a complete reinstall
>>of Acrobat 5.0.5 to no avail. Here's how I fixed it, though you may
>>find it hard to believe.
>>
>>Open System Preferences and go to the International panel
>>Click the Language tab
>>scroll down to the last two languages in the list (probably polski
>>and magyr, but I don't think it matters what they are)
>>Swap their positions in the list by click and drag.
>
>Dennis - your proposal sounded more like a joke than any posssibly
>serious explanation to work around an Acrobat persistent crash.
>
>But I have confidence in you, so:
>
>I launched Acrobat.
>It crashed as normal. (scientist, verifying his starting assumptions)
>  I followed your instructions about the language sequence swap.
>I launched Acrobat.
>No problem.
>Quit Acrobat.
>Re-launched Acrobat (scientist confirming his new unexpected observation)
>No problem.
>
>Absolutely the weirdest feeling.......!!
>
>IThanks anyway for sharing this effective but very unusual solution.

Come on guys, give me a break. No-one - not even a lab-full of the world's
finest software troubleshooters could ever - *ever* - find this solution.
Nor could anyone ever - *ever* - find it by accident. So, please enlighten
us about its discovery.

Simon