{"id":4484,"date":"2019-10-11T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:29:13","slug":"4484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4484","title":{"rendered":"Logger Pro crashes on launch on my Mac, but it used to work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is most likely caused by a corrupt preferences file. The location of this file is: <br \/><strong>~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.vernier.loggerpro.plist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow these steps to reset the preferences file:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quit Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Go to Finder and open the Go menu.<\/li>\n<li>While holding the Option key, choose Library from the Go menu. (<strong>Note:<\/strong> Library does not show up in the Go menu unless you are holding down the Option key.)<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/1848-Go_and_Menubar.png\" alt=\"1848-Go_and_Menubar.png\"><\/li>\n<li>Open the Preferences folder.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/1848-Preferences.png\" alt=\"1848-Preferences.png\"><\/li>\n<li>Search the folder for &#8220;vernier&#8221; to find the <strong>com.vernier.loggerpro.plist<\/strong> file. Move or copy the file to your desktop (as a backup).<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/1848-Searching_Preferences.png\" alt=\"1848-Searching_Preferences.png\"><\/li>\n<li>If the file still exists in your Preferences folder, move it to the trash.<\/li>\n<li>Restart your Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Launch Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is most likely caused by a corrupt preferences file. The location of this file is: ~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.vernier.loggerpro.plist Follow these steps to reset the preferences file:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7424,1155,7423,66,6409],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3-15","tag-crash","tag-delete-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}