Mac OS X 10.4.1: Live spell-checking problem, solution

CNET staff

Sept. 2, 2009 11:35 a.m. PT

2 min read

For some users, the "spell as you type" functionality included in Mac OS X 10.4.x causes issues with applications unexpectedly quitting, null errors, or garbled text.

MacFixIt reader Walter Johnson notes that this issue may be caused by problems with the Launch Services cache file, located in /Library/Caches.

Walter writes:

"After some additional digging we found the location of the cache files in question in /Library/Caches/. Not the user library, the root level one. There are 2 files that start with 'com.apple.LaunchServices'. Select both, move to trash, _don't_ empty the trash yet, restart. The files will be rebuilt after restarting. For us this fixes the problem and is much quicker than an archive and re-install.

"If you empty the trash before restarting, one of the files will immediately re-appear and the problem won't be gone on restart.

"Other useful settings are stored in these files and will have to be set up again. Custom file associations will be lost for instance. I don't know what else is stored in these files."

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