[X Newbies] Crashing of text editor?

[Norman Cohen]

More often than not, that behavior is consistent with a corrupted 
preference file. I've had problems with applications unexpectedly 
quitting (crashing) on occasion in every OS. Follow these steps:

Quit BBEdit Lite
Move the BBedit Lite preference out of your user Library Preferences 
folder ( located at '/Users/nacohen/Library/Preferences/BBEdit Lite 
Preferences/BBEdit Lite Prefs Data' on my system)
Restart BBEdit Lite and try to recreate the problem.
If it continues, try removing the entire BBEdit Lite Preferences folder 
with BBEdit not running and then restart BBEdit Lite.
If that doesn't work, remove BBEdit Lite and reinstall.

Most of the time, one of these steps will get your program working 
again.

Norman Cohen
nacohen at mac.com

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On Mar 28, 2004, at 8:40 AM, J wrote:

> What on earth would make an app as benign a BBEdit Lite crash just 
> while I am typing?
> This is unheard of in any other Mac OS I've ever used...
> How does one fix BBEdit when it won't open?
> All my coding is done in it and I'll be verily toasted if I can't get 
> it to work.
> I don't like the built-in editor because it does funny things with the 
> text,  while BBEdit is text only and stays that way.
>