Could you fix it, too? Let us know which app crashed and post your experience! For Mail app as an example, these can include mail accounts, signatures, smart mailboxes, and mail filters, so if you remove and rebuilt Mail’s container, expect to set these up again.Ĭleaning caches and apps container resolves Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite app crashes. However, doing so will clear out settings contained in these files, requiring you to set these up in the app again. If you remove the container for an app, OS X will simply rebuild it and have Mail re-create the files it needs.
This directory tree primarily contains aliases, but also contains files specifically for apps, such as its preference and cache files.
As part of this setup, OS X will create virtual containers in which the programs (“apps”) access the system resources needed, and do so by accessing parts of the OS X filesystem through a special directory tree in your account’s library. Look for it to resolve the problem.Īpps are sandboxed applications in OS X, meaning its resources are isolated from other processes for security and stability reasons. If these apps are crashing, the reason is often another app. Apps like Dropbox, iTunes or Safari do not have any containers.If your crashed app is not listed, go to ‘Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ Your Username ▸ Library ▸ Containers’ and search for your app’s container(s) and move them to the trash.Open the app again and wait for a while till updating of the app is finished.Click on the finder, click ‘ Go‘, hold the option key and click on ‘ Library‘ and then on the folder ‘ Containers‘.Go to the folder ‘ Caches‘ again and drag everything in the folder to the trash again. Click on the finder, click ‘ Go‘, hold the option key and click on ‘ Library‘ (will not appear if you don’t hold the option key).Drag all the contents of the folder to the trash. Go to finder and click on ‘ Macintosh HD/library/caches‘.Close the app and/or quit the crash notice.For Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders and Notes app crashes go to ‘ System Preferences…‘, ‘ Internet accounts‘ and deactivate all ‘ Mail‘, ‘ Contacts‘, ‘ Calendars‘, ‘ Reminders‘ and ‘ Notes‘.
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