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Danger_Mouse
08-02-2007, 04:52 PM
ARRRRGH!

Ok I accidentally started Quark 6.5 and then force quit it.

Now...that I need it, it wont launch.

A window pops up telling me "
the application has unexpected quit. MAC OSX and other apps wont be affected. Click reopen to open again. click report to see more details or send a report to Apple"

Neither will fix the problem, I have quit and restarted it many times, and rebooted the computer. Anything else I can do outside of reinstalling?

Thanks in Advance!
Virgo Nightingale
08-02-2007, 04:59 PM
Have you trashed your preferences?
Kool
08-02-2007, 05:00 PM
Trashing your preferences would be the next step before trying the re-install.
Kool
08-02-2007, 05:00 PM
Jinx!!
Virgo Nightingale
08-02-2007, 05:01 PM
Beat ya to it fair and square! :p
Kool
08-02-2007, 05:02 PM
That's just because mine had more words in it. :D
Virgo Nightingale
08-02-2007, 05:05 PM
Short and sweet... just like me! :)
Danger_Mouse
08-02-2007, 05:14 PM
I should have mentioned that!
Yes it was the next thing I did.
Virgo Nightingale
08-02-2007, 05:20 PM
Perhaps a corrupt system font? Unfortunately, I'm a mac-tard so I can't really direct you as to how to check for or repair that. :(

I've had ^that^ happen to me before, but we have a guy here who's a super-whiz with macs and he was able to do the futzing for me. He's on vaca this week though.
cornfed
08-02-2007, 05:32 PM
That's happened to me before. Every time it has turned out to be some crazed font thats gone awry.
doubting_thomas
08-02-2007, 05:48 PM
Quit Quark, trash the ttfont folder in The Quark 6 application directory > Jaws >
ttfont. Download a copy of FontFinagler and run that. Reboot. See if that works.

FontFinagler > http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/

That should fix it if it's a font issue.
urstwile
08-02-2007, 05:51 PM
Try emptying the contents of the font cache folder that Quark makes. It's in the Applications>Quark>jaws>ttfont folder.

Edit: Double jinx! :D
Danger_Mouse
08-02-2007, 08:31 PM
I was just about to give up and reinstall, when I doubled checked everything again.....

turned out I guess I didn't drag the preferences all the way to the trash so I didn't actually trash them.

works fine now.

One of those days I guess.

Thanks for the help!