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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit crashes
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.153902.5439@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Nov 90 14:39:02 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.030220.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Nov13.185926.22925@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1990Nov14.043023.8919@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> <1990Nov14.183023.11729@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Nov14.183023.11729@midway.uchicago.edu>, dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:
> In article <1990Nov14.043023.8919@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> jwwalker@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Jim Walker) writes:
>>
>>I have heard that the MENU editing crashes in ResEdit 2.0b2 are caused by
>>damaged ResEdit Prefs files.  Try trashing the Prefs file.
> 
> I don't know if this is what caused the problem for everyone else, but it
> appeared to be so for me.  I trashed the prefs file, and had no problems
> at all.  Thanks for the tip.
> 

I tried this and discovered that the very first MENU that I edit opens up fine
- no problems, then the next one (or even the same one again) will cause a
crash.  If I then trash *that* prefs file the same thing happens again... :-(
I'm not using any out-of-the-ordinary inits, so who's the culprit?

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