# Hard Crashes after 1.5.1 Update

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558>\
**Category:** Scapple for macOS\
**Tags:** bug, crash\
**Created:** [September 13, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558 "2025-09-13T17:21:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Lamplighter)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/1 "2025-09-13T17:21:27Z")

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Hallooo!

Hmm. So, I’ve just updated to 1.5.1 (13694) via “Check for Updates” and clicking the “Install and Relaunch”. Now, any .scap I attempt to open results in a hard crash. New documents seem to work alright, though they appear to have intermittent momentary freezes (could be unrelated, but worth mentioning). All .scap files authored in any prior release crash instantly. They crash so violently the fan spins up on my Mac Book Pro. 😊

Here’s a partial crash report:

> Process: Scapple [37446]  
> Path: /Applications/Scapple.app/Contents/MacOS/Scapple  
> Identifier: com.literatureandlatte.scapple  
> Version: 1.5.1 (13694)  
> Code Type: X86-64 (Native)  
> Parent Process: launchd [1]
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> Date/Time: 2025-09-13 09:54:25.6483 -0700  
> OS Version: macOS 13.4 (22F66)  
> Report Version: 12  
> Bridge OS Version: 7.5 (20P5058)
> 
> System Integrity Protection: enabled
> 
> Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> 
> Exception Type: EXC\_BAD\_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)  
> Exception Codes: KERN\_INVALID\_ADDRESS at 0x000000000000001e  
> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000000000001e
> 
> Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11  
> Terminating Process: exc handler [37446]

Anyone else experience this? Any chance there’s a workaround?

Cheers & Thanks 😉

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/2 "2025-09-13T19:00:59Z")

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Have you gone through the recent [crash reports for Scapple on macOS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/tags/c/scapple/scapple-macos/35/crash) yet, to see if there is anything matching your case?

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**Author:** ![Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Lamplighter)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/3 "2025-09-13T19:17:27Z")

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Amber, thank you. I did look through these, but your nudge led me to dig deeper. I went ahead and tried the 1.5.2 beta you shared in a previous thread. Sorted me right out. Woo! I’m back in the game. 🙂

You rock. Thanks. 😉

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/4 "2025-09-13T19:19:01Z")

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Splendid, glad to hear we have nothing new to worry about. 🙂

(Well, we do, but I think I’ve just about figured out the limits of it, and it is unique to macOS 26.)

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**Author:** ![Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Lamplighter](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Lamplighter)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/5 "2025-09-13T19:28:02Z")

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Thankfully, every time you finish stabilizing your beautiful app…every OS launches an update and sends you back in for more fixing. 😆

God speed! Y’all are doin great.

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-crashes-after-1-5-1-update/150558/6 "2025-09-13T19:29:21Z")

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You don’t even want to get me started on this update, in particular. 🤣