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I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you're having trouble making changes to files that are inside your home folder (represented by a house icon in the sidebar of a Finder window), or if you can't get changes to the settings of an application to stick, then please see below. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report - they're very long and not helpful. Select the most recent report and post the entire contents - again, the text, not a screenshot. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough. When posting a log extract, be selective. Paste into a reply to this message ( command-V). Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. If you don't see that menu, selectĮnter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid. The application is in the folder that opens. ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
