[Preciousss]

The date is 1/13/02 right now and I just downloaded the Safari update (Software Update found it automatically for me).

After a bit of browsing once the update was installed, I noticed a bit of a slowdown on these forums (threads wouldn't open up but other sites came in fine). I figured it might just be because lately, there have been problems with the macnn forums since Macworld. Even earlier today I was not able to access macnn.

Anyway. So I rebooted. Now Safari won't even open up. I get an error message saying that it has unexpectedly quit.

Is there a way in OSX for me to roll back to the previous version of an app before an update was applied? I'm accustomed to being able to do this in Windows.

I know I could just delete the whole damn thing and download it again, but I'm hoping there's a way that I can just rollback without having to go through all that. I'm also thinking I should hold off on installing every update that comes out until some I'm sure most of the annoying bugs are fixed. I guess I'm just really hopeful for Safari to so well...

Thanks

[Back up 15 and punt]

Are you trying to open Safari via Dock or are trying to open Safari directly?

[Preciousss]

Originally posted by Back up 15 and punt:
Are you trying to open Safari via Dock or are trying to open Safari directly?

Via the Dock. After I initially downloaded it last week, I dragged it to my Applications folder first, then to my Dock.

Taking your implied suggestion, I just tried opening it from my Applications folder and got the same result.

[kovacs]

Trash the prefs file and you'll be fine:

home/Preferences/com.apple.safari.plist

[Preciousss]

Originally posted by kovacs:
Trash the prefs file and you'll be fine:

home/Preferences/com.apple.safari.plist

Wow, that worked. Thanks!

Would you mind explaining to me how this fix worked? Sorry if it's a dumb question but I'm still getting accustomed to working in OSX.

Thanks again.

Edit
Well, it happened again, at the same time of day no less. I deleted my preferences file again and it's back up. Weird.

[mmintler]

I am also having this problem...tried throwing away prefs and re-installing. Still doesn't open without quitting.

Does anyone have other ideas??


Thanks
Mark

[mmintler]

Anyone else having problem running Safari?

[AKcrab]

I saw a report of someone with the old version still in their trash causing a conflict. Empty your trash?

[mmintler]

Thanks for the response...I did empty the trash and still nothing. Hopefully, the final version will work.

Thanks

[Graymalkin]

Mount the disk image and try running Safari from there, if it runs, trash anything you have in /Applications (Safari I mean) and then empty the trash before dragging Safari from the disk image to /Applications. I had the same problem trying to copy Safari over without deleting the old version first. For whatever reason it refused to launch. I trashes Safari, emptied my trash and then copied it and everything worked okie dokie. Try doing it in that order and see if it works.

[Art Vandelay]

It's also possible that you have a corrupted history, bookmarks, or downloads file. Try removing these from ~/Library/Safari/. It could also be possible that there is corruption in the cache. Try removing ~/Library/Caches/Safari/ and ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.WebKit/.

[iamnid]

I had the same problem... I just trashed the entire program and preferences and then reinstalled it... not much of a solution, but it worked.

[dorian_gray]

Hey folks,

thats not really a safari problem, things like that kann happen to any of your applications.
The reason seems to be corrupted prefference files.

If you create a new user without admin rights, he can access all those applications....

Reinstalling OSX doesn't solve the problem for long time

daniel