[willed]

Preview, quite a core piece of OSX, has stopped working on my machine. Quickview and Adobe Reader still work, so it's not a wider problem with PDFs. Below are the top few lines of the auto-generated problem report.

Any ideas?? I guess it doesn't make much difference day to day but something is obviously wrong here. In other news, Spotlight keeps re-indexing my hard disk every hour or two. Maybe these problems are related? Any help much appreciated...

Thanks,

Will
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Process: Preview [2060]
Path: /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Identifier: com.apple.Preview
Version: 4.2 (469.5)
Build Info: Preview-4690500~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [79]

Interval Since Last Report: 68196 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 24
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 40 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 6

Date/Time: 2009-07-06 10:08:20.180 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 02576B90-B972-4799-BFF1-56112C8FC705

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0x52, 0xffffffa3, 0x7e, 0xffffffed, 0x77, 0x1e, 0x4b, 0x1e)'

[Big Mac]

Trashed preferences? Logged out or restarted? Tried a different account? Restored the app from the Leopard disc?

[P]

Looks like corrupt files. You could try rerunning the latest combo update, but if that won't work, you'll have to restore from the installation disc.

[willed]

Thanks guys, must have been a corrupted file. Preview isn't one of the apps you can reinstall separately from the Leopard disk but luckily someone on another forum had put a copy on his iDisk.

(See here)

Cheers,

Will

[Big Mac]

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