On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Bill Bumgarner<b...@mac.com> wrote: > On Jul 25, 2009, at 10:04 AM, slasktrattena...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I have never been able to reproduce this one myself, but have received >> a number of similar crash reports. The crash occurs on this line >> (detached thread): >> >> NSDictionary *iTunesLib = [[NSDictionary alloc] >> initWithContentsOfFile:libPath]; >> >> libPath is a retained ivar, guaranteed to be a valid path, never nil. > > Three possibilities off the top of my head: > > - file is corrupt > - your process ran out of memory > - the file was deleted or rewritten while -initWithContentsOfFile: was in > the midst of reading it
I find the third option the most likely: iTunes rewrites the data file frequently. Is there a way to lock the file while reading it, or detect if it is being modified, or suchlike? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
