SOLVED: MacOS: FreeCAD crashes when opening project

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Re: MacOS: FreeCAD crashes when opening project

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Thank you for your response.

adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:12 pm does enabling software opengl in edit->preferences->display make any difference?
No difference

adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:12 pm does freecad 0.20.1 crash too?
Yes, same crash

adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:12 pm are you running on x86_64 machine or on an arm64 machine?
MacBook Pro 2019, Intel (x86_64), MacOS Ventura 13.0.1

I have lots of other projects, some of them are much more complicated. This is the only one crashing.
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Re: MacOS: FreeCAD crashes when opening project

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zisoft wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:23 pm
adrianinsaval wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:12 pm does enabling software opengl in edit->preferences->display make any difference?
No difference
did you restart freecad after enabling?

PS: if this isn't the cause remember to disable it as it hurts performance.
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Re: MacOS: FreeCAD crashes when opening project

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Yes, I did restart FreeCAD after the change.

I have switched it back off again now.
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Re: MacOS: FreeCAD crashes when opening project

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Solved!
I finally found the cause of the crash.

Using my Windows installation of FreeCAD I could open the project.

The output panel shows a strange warning:

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14:37:18  DrawViewSymbol - H�T$L�D$L�L$ USVWAVH��$�����@ - SVG for Symbol is not valid. See log.
So I started to delete objects from the project until the message disappeared.
TechDraw page Page005 contains an empty object ActiveView which is a leftover from some experiments.
After I deleted the empty ActiveView the project could be opened again on MacOS.

@wandererfan so it seems indeed to be a problem with TechDraw, but only on MacOS.

Thanks to everyone who tried to find a solution.
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