I'm intermittently getting an unexpected quit out of Tinderbox Six when trying to change a note's prototype via the inspector. Any clues to avoid would be welcome please. The error message:

Process:               TinderboxSix [9216]
Path:                  /Applications/TinderboxSix.app/Contents/MacOS/TinderboxSix
Identifier:            com.eastgate.TinderboxSix
Version:               6.1.0 (6.1.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           TinderboxSix [9216]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2014-11-04 21:56:56.498 +1100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        C4EE7C2E-995A-F643-98D5-3EED10E95099

Sleep/Wake UUID:       5D350192-953E-4B8A-937A-02258764E6C6

Time Awake Since Boot: 110000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       48000 seconds

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       EXC_I386_GPFLT

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010be35a60 LinkInfo::IsVisible() const + 16
1   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010bee8b80 Neighborhood::Neighborhood(NodeVector const&, std::vector<LinkInfo*, std::allocator<LinkInfo*> > const&) + 624
2   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010bee92ef -[LinkAnimator clearNeighborhood:] + 63
3   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010beea860 -[LinkAnimator updateNeighborhoods] + 192
4   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010bee9675 -[LinkAnimator draw:] + 69
5   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010bc53b7a -[TbxMap drawLinks:in:] + 138
6   com.eastgate.TinderboxSix          0x000000010bc53d33 -[TbxMap drawRect:] + 371
7   com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f36b59 -[NSView(NSInternal) _recursive:displayRectIgnoringOpacity:inGraphicsContext:CGContext:topView:should
ChangeFontReferenceColor:] + 1186
8   com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f365a8 __46-[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) drawLayer:inContext:]_block_invoke + 218
9   com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f36341 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) _drawViewBackingLayer:inContext:drawingHandler:] + 2407
10  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f359c3 -[NSView(NSLayerKitGlue) drawLayer:inContext:] + 108
11  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f800c6 -[_NSBackingLayerContents drawLayer:inContext:] + 145
12  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f78177 -[CALayer drawInContext:] + 119
13  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f7fbfe -[_NSTiledLayer drawTile:inContext:] + 625
14  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f7f92f -[_NSTiledLayerContents drawLayer:inContext:] + 169
15  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f78177 -[CALayer drawInContext:] + 119
16  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff8474cdd4 -[NSTileLayer drawInContext:] + 169
17  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f77153 CABackingStoreUpdate_ + 3306
18  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f76463 ___ZN2CA5Layer8display_Ev_block_invoke + 59
19  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f7641f x_blame_allocations + 81
20  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f75f1c CA::Layer::display_() + 1546
21  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f7f83d -[NSTileLayer display] + 119
22  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f7bd84 -[_NSTiledLayerContents update:] + 5688
23  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f7a487 -[_NSTiledLayer display] + 375
24  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f75641 CA::Layer::display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 603
25  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f74d7d CA::Layer::layout_and_display_if_needed(CA::Transaction*) + 35
26  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f7450e CA::Context::commit_transaction(CA::Transaction*) + 242
27  com.apple.QuartzCore                0x00007fff86f74164 CA::Transaction::commit() + 390
28  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff83f65984 _handleWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraints + 1130
29  com.apple.AppKit                    0x00007fff8452ad91 __83-[NSWindow _postWindowNeedsDisplayOrLayoutOrUpdateConstraintsUnlessPostingDisabled]_block_i
nvoke1523 + 46
30  com.apple.CoreFoundation            0x00007fff8597ad87 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 23
31  com.apple.CoreFoundation            0x00007fff8597ace0 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 368
32  com.apple.CoreFoundation            0x00007fff8596cde8 __CFRunLoopRun + 872
33  com.apple.CoreFoundation            0x00007fff8596c838 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
34  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff8548843f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
35  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff854880be ReceiveNextEventCommon + 179
36  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff854d646a AcquireNextEventInMode + 54
37  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff854d3c38 IsUserStillTracking(MenuSelectData*, unsigned char*) + 173
38  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff854d382e TrackMenuCommon(MenuSelectData&, unsigned char*) + 1651
39  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff8560eaf2 PopUpMenuSelectCore(MenuData*, Point, double, Point, unsigned short, unsigned int, Rect const*, unsigned short, unsigned int, Rect const*, Rect const*, __CFDictionary const*, __CFString const*, OpaqueMenuRef**, unsigned short*) + 1670
40  com.apple.HIToolbox                0x00007fff8560dd44 _HandlePopUpMenuSelection8(OpaqueMenuRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, unsigned int, Point, unsigned short, unsigned int, Rect const*, uns

Thanks Mark. Sorry if I inadvertently breached forum etiquette. I'll take up your suggestion.

Please send the crash log and the document with which you're having problems to info@eastgate.com

Enlightened self-interest suggests it is worth forwarding crash logs to info@eastgate.com, if possible with a short contextual description of evens prior to the crash.

I'm not on Yosemite but other testers are and they use prototypes a lot so if this were a general problem I'd expect it to be a known issue if as-yet unfixed. This implies the trigger conditions may be particular to your workflow. That doesn't mean you're doing something wrong, just things others aren't (and the differences only need to be quite minor).

From other posts you've made, I'd hazard a guess that one possible cause is simply bad agent query syntax. I've had occasional instances where an inadvertent error with the query caused a crash - but not so instant as to make clear the immediate cause. Correcting the issue stopped further such crashes. In this case the crash logs should be useful for support in triaging a solution.

I've used TB6 very heavily daily for 3 months on a research project (albeit mainly on OS 10.8) in both publics and beta releases and would stress the app is actually very stable. However, if the same crash condition is triggered repeatedly (albeit unknowingly), the ensuing crashes will result giving a false indication as to overall stability when in fact there is one consistent cause.

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As Mark A and others have noted, 6.1.1 does not really seem to have an inherent stability problem with Yosemite. I've used it pretty much round the clock with Yosemite (now 10.10.1) with infrequent (every few days) crashes, fwiw.