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os x: don’t crash and bother

When a program crashes under OS X then it displays a dialog asking if the info should be sent to Apple. If you never do that then you can disable this dialog by typing:


defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType Server

in a terminal shell. So says the C’t.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 5:18 am and is filed under Apple, OSX. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “os x: don’t crash and bother”

  1. scott Says:
    January 10th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    But then how will they ever fix…….

    Ohwaitnevermind.

  2. Wolf Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 5:41 am

    why not disable it alltogether?

    defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

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