Spoiler: It was the SCFinderPlugin I had installed (and had forgotten about).
A few weeks ago, Evernote started crashing on my Mac. I don’t know if it was a new version of Evernote that caused it or an update to OS X. All I know is that every time I tried to “open” or “save” a PDF embedded in a Evernote note, the program either crashed or I got the spinning beach ball of death.
I opened a support ticket with the Evernote team an, despite having a free account, they promptly responded with a link to their next beta release. I tried it out, but it didn’t fix anything. The next message I got was from their development team asking me to remove SCFinderPlugin, since it was listed somewhere in the gibberish of the OS X crash report. I wasn’t hopeful, but I tried it anyway. Lo and behold, it worked. So apparently, the current version of Evernote and SCFinderPlugin do not play well together. Since I never used the plugin anyway, I’m not missing anything.
For full instructions on how to uninstall SCFinderPlugin, go to the Tigris website.
Here’s an excerpt from the crash report, in case someone out there is using their Google-fu to try and find an answer.
Process: Evernote [4492] Path: /Users/USER/Downloads/Evernote.app/Contents/MacOS/Evernote Identifier: com.evernote.Evernote Version: 3.0.6 Beta 2 (215813) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [283] Date/Time: 2012-01-18 19:01:40.915 -0500 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) Report Version: 9 Interval Since Last Report: 182825 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 2 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 238 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1 Anonymous UUID: 6A055CE3-4A47-437A-B691-012525A3A902 Crashed Thread: 4 Dispatch queue: TFSVolumeInfo::GetSyncGCDQueue Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000fefff000 VM Regions Near 0xfefff000: CG backing stores 00000000c9db1000-00000000ca3e0000 [ 6332K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM --> VM_ALLOCATE 00000000fefff000-00000000ff000000 [ 4K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV Submap 00000000ffff0000-00000000ffff2000 r-x/r-x process-only submap Application Specific Information: Performing @selector(saveResourceAs:) from sender NSMenuItem 0x6ac8610 objc[4492]: garbage collection is OFF abort() called An uncaught exception was thrown with this reason: Uncaught system exception: signal 10 and this backtrace: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x91742d87 __raiseError + 231 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9634a149 objc_exception_throw + 155 2 ExceptionHandling 0x00797f08 -[NSExceptionHandler _handleException:mask:] + 1422 3 ExceptionHandling 0x00797972 -[NSExceptionHandler _createAndHandleUncaughtSystemExceptionWithSignal:pc:sp:] + 277 4 ExceptionHandling 0x007982fd NSExceptionHandlerUncaughtSignalHandler + 60 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x915dd59b _sigtramp + 43 6 ??? 0xffffffff 0x0 + 4294967295 7 DesktopServicesPriv 0x980264fe _ZN7TFSInfo10InitializeEhP29OpaqueLSSharedFileListItemRef + 770 8 DesktopServicesPriv 0x97fac9f6 _ZN19TFSInfoSynchronizer13FetchChildrenEv + 652 9 DesktopServicesPriv 0x97f988b3 _ZN5TNode19SynchronizeChildrenEmR16TNodeEventPtrSet + 181 10 DesktopServicesPriv 0x97f98327 _ZN5TNode10HandleSyncEm + 2123 11 DesktopServicesPriv 0x97f97aaf _ZN5TNode10HandleSyncERK11TCountedPtrI9TNodeTaskERK8TNodePtr + 55 12 DesktopServicesPriv 0x97fe62d6 _ZN5TNode17HandleNodeRequestERK11TCountedPtrI9TNodeTaskERKS0_I17TVolumeSyncThreadE + 978 13 DesktopServicesPriv 0x980095e5 __PostNodeTaskRequest_block_invoke_08 + 87 14 DesktopServicesPriv 0x9801bb09 _Z18ExceptionSafeBlockU13block_pointerFvvE + 55 15 DesktopServicesPriv 0x98009588 __PostNodeTaskRequest_block_invoke_0 + 86 16 libdispatch.dylib 0x986fee11 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15 17 libdispatch.dylib 0x98700797 _dispatch_queue_drain + 224 18 libdispatch.dylib 0x9870063c _dispatch_queue_invoke + 47 19 libdispatch.dylib 0x986ffe44 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 187 20 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91587b24 _pthread_wqthread + 346 21 libsystem_c.dylib 0x915896fe start_wqthread + 30 ) Break on objc_exception_throw to catch it live