[OS X TeX] TeXShop Error Message

[Robert Blackstone]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:00 PM,  Herbert Schulz wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:04 AM, Robert Blackstone wrote:
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>>  ... on opening  TeXShop, always the following error message pops up:
>> "failed to parse ~/Library?TeXShop/Macros/Macros_??.plist file".
>> ..... Does anybody know what can be done about it.
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> Howdy,
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> Where do you see this error message? Is it in the Console.log or System.log?

It is a new window containing only the error message

> First try to simply move the ~/Library/TeXShop/Macros folder to the desktop and restart TeXShop. this should create a new Macros folder. If this fixes the problem you probably had a messed up macros plist file. You'll have to re-enter any additional macros you already created.
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Removing the ~/Library/TeXShop/Macros folder did solve the problem.
Thank you for the advice.

Kind regards,
Robert Blackstone