Unlikely occurrences & known bugs

Unlikely occurrences

There are a few unlikely things to occur, all of which do not affect the integrity of the data.

• SlipBox may occasionally crash during the application launch. The problem seems to be in the decoding of non-text attachments from the file such as images or sound files that were copied into the slip text field. This is an elusive and unsystematic error that seems to have to do with Cocoas garbage collection mechanism. As the cause for this problem lies somewhere deep within Apple's code there is nothing I can do about it for now. (Overall, however, garbage collection increases SlipBox's reliability and memory efficiency.)
• If you get the message: "Problem deleting SlipBox temp file!" SlipBox cannot delete a temporary file that it created for internal reasons. You most likely also got a message saying: "Problem during temporary saving content of RTFD String!" You can correct this problem as follows:
  1. Quit SlipBox.
  2. Go to your "Library" folder, which is located in your home directory.
  3. Go to "Application Support/SlipBox".
  4. Delete the file "SlipBox_tmp.rtfd". (Depending on your Finder preferences the extension ".rtfd" may not be shown.)
  5. That's it! Just start SlipBox as usual.

Known bugs

• Some non-textual data that are displayed in the slip text field (videos, audio files, PDFs) are not correctly deallocated when the current slip changes. This is also a bug in the Cocoa framework. SlipBox works around this, so you will not see any direct effects. However, the memory is not properly deallocated, so the memory consumption may increase dramatically if you use many of such files and frequently change the current slip. Note that this affects data that is linked to as well as copied into the slip text.
• The scroll bar in the search results table in the search view is not drawn properly without changing window size by hand. But this is just a cosmetic issue.