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Bill reported:

“I opened Bento 3 today to find it crashes after typing my password. I did this three times. Restarted my PowerBook Pro twice. On the 4th try, it worked and asked me if I wanted to back up my data. I am also using Snow Leopard.”

Comment: crashes like this seem random – why does it work the 4th time? Bento 2 was much more stable. No crash reports to speak of.

Addition (Nov. 25): I had another crash today myself: I simply edited a text field (adding a few words) while it happened. I restarted Bento and reverted to a back-up of my database. First a strange thing happened: when I tried to edit the same text field, the new entry disappeared when I tabbed out of the field! The same thing happened several time, and then Bento crashed again.
Now I restarted Bento and duplicated the record in question, then deleted the original one. Now the edit worked fine. So somehow, that single text field was corrupted! Very, very strange and disconcerting!

(Nov. 28): This is maybe the craziest Bento crash: my active application was iPhoto. When I woke up my Mac, the Bento icon in the dock was jumping: Bento 3 had crashed while it was idling in the background!

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