Scriptographer.org - Possible fix for crashes at s...

Together with Alex I might have found a possible fix for all the people unable to start Illustrator with Scriptographer installed.

During the process of preparing his machine for a remote debug session he created a new user without administrator privileges for me to log in as, and when running Illustrator under this user it all of a sudden worked. And even after going back to his old account, it still worked. Magic!

So this is the proposed procedure now:

Start System Preferences
Select Accounts
Create a new temporary User wihtout administrator privileges
Log out
Log in as the new User
Start Illustrator. It should magically work
Go back to the old account
Check if Illustrator still works
Remove the temporary account through System Preferences

Please report if this procedure does or does not work for you.

Let's hope for the best.

I can start Illustrator in all other user accounts except the admin one. It seems to crash when loading plug-ins.

Did NOT work

But does the Scriptographer plugin load in the other accounts?

Could you try removing these files and see if that helps?

Library/Preferences/com.apple.java.util.prefs.plist
Library/Preferences/com.scriptographer.adm.plist

I have the same problem... when i delete these files, illustrator opens up. But as soon as I try to create a new doc it crashes....

All of above was happened to me at one time or another in the last 6 months (don't know if QuickTime update related or not). One remedy I have found for the crash once it is open -- check the Preferences Plug-Ins and Scratch Disks to be sure that it is not trying to use "Startup" as the Primary Scratch Disk, but select your Macintosh HD. Once that is changed, you must quit Illustrator and restart, then it works fine (but I have to do this each new day after shutting down).