Safari keep crashing after opening

[Rosco]

Safari keep crashing after opening. Setting up new iMac and migrated from old Macbook, OS 10,7.4.

This is first part of problem file.

Process: Safari [192]
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 5.1.6 (7534.56.5)
Build Info: WebBrowser-7534056005000000~6
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [117]

Date/Time: 2012-08-11 18:56:10.150 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 6826 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 30
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 23 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 30
Anonymous UUID: 48FDAFB3-155D-468B-B4E7-21EDC21C8BEE

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
objc[192]: garbage collection is OFF
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < [_itemArray count])'
*** First throw call stack:

ANY CLUES??

Cheers
Rosco

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

Could be several things - corrupted plist (preference file), corrupted cache, third-party add-on, etc. Sometimes things like this will happen after doing a migration from an older Mac. It's probably a software issue.

-It looks like the iMac is running 10.7.4, not 10.8, correct?
-Have you run all Software Updates? Latest version of Safari is 6.0.
-Have you tried deleting the plist file?

C

 

[Rosco]

Thx.

Had assumed because new iMac all software upto date. Have done a general software update but might check Safari update later.

Il try moving those other files to trash- I think they're down at root level??
Rosco

 

[Cory Cooper]

The files you are looking for are all in your User folder > Library. To be able to view the Library folder in Lion, hold the Option key while clicking the Go menu in Finder. Halfway down you will see Library, select it.

Delete the following files:

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari (whole folder)
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari (whole folder)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.Safari.xxxxxxxxxxxx.plist (the xxxxxxxxxxxx will be your Mac's Ethernet MAC address)
~/Library/Safari/ (all files except Bookmarks.plist and Form Values)

See if the Safari 6.0 updates shows up for you as well and install it.

C

 

[Rosco]

Cory,

Easy fix- just installed Mountain Lion and bingo- all Ok. I had assumed (wrongly) that Mountain Lion was installed in new machine.

Thanks- you prompted me to double check.

Rosco

 

[Cory Cooper]

Not a problem, glad it's sorted.

Enjoy the new iMac.

C