Recently I was creating a movie in POV-Ray on my Mac (Leopard). After finishing
rendering POV-Ray unexpectedly closed down.

Upon restart I got the following message:

"A fatal error occurred. If the same problem occurs more than once, please fill
out a bug report form in the POV-Ray documentation folder. Please include the
error number below.

The error number is -199. (For internal reference only)."


It was then impossible for me to load POV-Ray without getting this
error-message. To solve the problem I removed POV-Ray from my computer,
downloaded the newest version and installed it, but still the problem
persisted.

So right now I am unable to gain access to POV-Ray. How can I solve this
problem?

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Andreas wrote:
> Recently I was creating a movie in POV-Ray on my Mac (Leopard). After finishing
> rendering POV-Ray unexpectedly closed down.
> 
> Upon restart I got the following message:
> 
> "A fatal error occurred. If the same problem occurs more than once, please fill
> out a bug report form in the POV-Ray documentation folder. Please include the
> error number below.
> 
> The error number is -199. (For internal reference only)."
> 
> 
> It was then impossible for me to load POV-Ray without getting this
> error-message. To solve the problem I removed POV-Ray from my computer,
> downloaded the newest version and installed it, but still the problem
> persisted.
> 
> So right now I am unable to gain access to POV-Ray. How can I solve this
> problem?

Try deleting the preferences file, which is probably locked and causes the 
problem.

	Thorsten, POV-Team

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You are right. It is a problem with the preference-file, since POV-Ray crashes
upon initializing the preferences.

I have not configured POV-Ray to load any custom preference-file, so I cannot
delete it.

Which file is the default preference-file for POV-Ray?

Can I restore the file somehow?

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Andreas wrote:
> You are right. It is a problem with the preference-file, since POV-Ray crashes
> upon initializing the preferences.
> 
> I have not configured POV-Ray to load any custom preference-file, so I cannot
> delete it.
> 
> Which file is the default preference-file for POV-Ray?

Like all Mac applications, POV-Ray preferences are stored in the 
/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder and named properly (search 
for a file with POV-Ray in the name).

Note that the folder names may be localized if your system language is not 
English. If you have trouble finding the right folder, switch your system 
language to English and restart. Then all system folders will have their 
English names until you change your language back and restart again.

	Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Andreas wrote:
> > You are right. It is a problem with the preference-file, since POV-Ray crashes
> > upon initializing the preferences.
> >
> > I have not configured POV-Ray to load any custom preference-file, so I cannot
> > delete it.
> >
> > Which file is the default preference-file for POV-Ray?
>
> Like all Mac applications, POV-Ray preferences are stored in the
> /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences folder and named properly (search
> for a file with POV-Ray in the name).
>
> Note that the folder names may be localized if your system language is not
> English. If you have trouble finding the right folder, switch your system
> language to English and restart. Then all system folders will have their
> English names until you change your language back and restart again.
>
>  Thorsten

Andreas, Were you able to get POV-Ray to run on your Mac?  I am having very
similar problems and have already tried deleting the preference file as
Thorsten suggests and this did not help.  POV-ray will open and then crash
immediately.  I had posted several messages about this on the Mac message board
and the bugreport board back in April.

eefKnot

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