I guess you mean BibDesk? Is there any crash log for BibDesk in  
Console.app?

Christiaan

On 21 Feb 2008, at 1:47 PM, Holger Frauenrath wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> it looks like Bibtex reproducibly crashes my machine at work so badly
> that the whole computer becomes unresponsive, does not recover even
> after an hour or longer, and needs to be cold restarted.
>
> While I am, admittedly, not entirely sure that BibTeX is the real
> culprit, this crash always and *reproducibly* happens when I have
> several applications open (typically TeXShop, BibTeX, Adobe
> Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, ChemDraw, Mail, Safari, and MS Word),
> BibTeX has been inactive or even hidden for a while, and I then click
> on its application icon in the dock in order to bring it to the front
> again.
>
> It has happened to me a couple of times in recent weeks (so not only
> with 1.3.14, but I cannot remember since when), and it also happened
> yesterday (i.e., definitely with 1.3.14).
>
> I cannot really remember that this has ever happened to me on my
> laptop at home (which may also be related to different usage
> patterns) so the actual setup of my machine at work may be an
> important factor: I use an Intel iMac with 2 GB of RAM, MacOS 10.4,
> and we have a relatively complex setup (under MacOS 10.4) booting the
> machines locally but with remote home directories (mounted using NIS,
> NFS, and automount).
>
> I will be happy to be more specific if needed, and I will also
> gratefully help to "debug" the problem if someone can tell me how. I
> am hesitant to start BibTeX again because of the severe consequences,
> but I will do so if this helps to find the reason for the crash.
> However, perhaps one might take a look at what happened yesterday  
> first.
>
> Best regards
> Holger
>
>
>
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