Dec

20

Bento 3.0.2: First Crash

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Didn’t take long. One of those crazy crashes I actually had before:

I was working in iPhoto, moving some pictures around and all of a sudden the Bento icon in the dock is jumping!

How can Bento crash while it’s running only in the background???

Nov

17

Bento 3 Crash Report: November 09

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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!

Oct

15

Bento 3 Crash Report: 10-12-09

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I would call this newest crash I experienced one of the random variety.

I was simply trying to re-size a jpg picture in a media field when Bento 3 crashed. The database file didn’t seem to be affected – it worked fine after re-start.

I will still report every single crash – because these frequent crashes did not occur in my copy of Bento 2.

Oct

9

Bento 3 Crash Report: 10-9-09

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I have no choice – I just created a new category: Bento 3 Crashes! I still can’t believe how unstable the app is. So please comment in detail on the crashes of Bento 3 and I will create a new post for every crash reported.

Today I was using my Library “German Legal” to practice my vocabulary to prepare for my next court case (I’m an interpreter). I had set up a Smart Collection for the words I need to practice. It includes a Check Box field entitled “needs practice.” As long as this box is checked the words remain in the Smart Collection. Today, when I tried to un-check the box, Bento 3 crashed! Luckily, my database file stayed intact (it seems) when I re-started Bento, but the same thing happened again! So now I can’t use this set-up for practicing anymore!
Bento 3 is not able to adjust that Smart Collection. Big bummer!

Summary – the crash trigger:
trying to remove a record from a Smart Collection by un-checking a Check Box field. This had worked perfectly in Bento 2.

Update (12/09): this bug was specifically addressed in the Bento 3.0 v2 upgrade and has really been fixed! Thanks Ryan.