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July 30, 2003 8:10 AM PDT

Troubleshooting Address Book 3.0.x: Repeatable crash after pasting, exists in Panther

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Address Book 3.0.3 (v225) has a bug that causes a full system crash - in our tests resulting in a soft reset - when the first character of a filled "Note" field is deleted, then a paste function is performed.

For example, if the word "Apple" is occupying the "Note" field of a particular contact, and you delete the first character yielding "pple," then attempt to paste a chunk of text stored on your clipboard immediately after, the Mac OS X 10.2.x will crash.

We reproduced this bug on several systems in house. As stated above, our first test resulted in a logout of the current user, obviously accompanied by the loss of any unsaved data.

A developer we contacted about this issue confirmed that the initial preview build of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and its included version of Address Book (3.1 v257) continues to exhibit this bug.

Feedback? Late-breakers@macfixit.com.

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