AppleScript Dictionary Woes..

[toast442]

I was just getting into playing with AppleScript on my new 10.2.4 machine - and then it happened. I can no longer open a dictionary in either the Script Editor or Project Builder. Trying to do do results in a lot of disk thrashing and an "Unexpected Exit." It used to work.

I've gone through and backed out software apps, moved stuff out of /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions, reinstalled the developers tools, and all other manner of ways of perturbing the problem out of existance - all to no avail.

Is there anyone out there with more experience that could recommend some other things to try? Or even better, someone that has had this problem and solved it? I really don't want to have to reload the OS just to make this work again.

 

[toast442]

OK .. Naturally, after posting the above, I was clobbered over the head with a solution.

I just happened to look at the output printed in the Console log - and there it was. It was failing to parse a plist file because of some out-of-range UTF8 encoding. Funny thing was, this was some sort of application config file for Virtual PC 6. Although I've left Windows behind, it was still causing crashes!

Anyhow, just removing the file fixed the problem. Hopefully this will help out someone else who may in the future have a similar issue.