All You Need to Know About QuickBooks Crash Catcher Error

Need to do some urgent work, but every time you try to perform an action, the QuickBooks Desktop application just crashes and shows the QuickBooks crash catcher error? If yes, make sure to stay tuned to the post until the end for the detailed troubleshooting procedure. You might be getting an error message with the error message, stating, “Crash Catcher- An error has occurred, and QuickBooks must quit.” Generally, the crash catcher error gets triggered when the user is using an outdated version of the QuickBooks Desktop application. However, there can bea number of other reasons toobehind the occurrence of the crash catcher error that we are going to discuss further in this post.

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What are the reasons that often throw QuickBooks Crash Catcher Error in Mac?

Apart from the usage of an outdated version of the QuickBooks Desktop application, there are a number of other potential reasons that can cause QuickBooks Crash Catcher error in QuickBooks, such as:

  • There is some damage done to the QuickBooks Desktop data.

What should be done to get over with QuickBooks Crash Catcher Error?

Solution 1) Manually update the version of the QuickBooks Desktop application

  • Open the QuickBooks Desktop application and then select the Check for QuickBooksUpdates option from the QuickBooks drop-down menu.

  • In case there is a newer version available of the QuickBooks Desktop, click on the Install Update option.

  • When prompted, click on the Install and Relaunch option.

  • Once QuickBooks Desktop updating is done, the system will automatically re-open the updated QuickBooks Desktop application.

Solution 2) Use Verify Data and Rebuild Data tools to repair the damaged QuickBooks Desktop data

  • Open QuickBooks Desktop and then select the File menu.

  • Select the Utilities option from the drop-down menu.

  • Under Utilities, choose the Verify Data option and then hit the OK button to close down the opened windows

Note: If you see “Your data has failed the integrity check” in the result, then proceed further in this solution.

  • Again, go to the File menu and select the Utilities option.

  • Under Utilities, you need to choose the Rebuilt Data option.

Note: QuickBooks will give you an option to create a backup of the company file to avoid any risk of data loss. If you want to make a backup before rebuilding the company file, select the OK button and follow the on-screen instructions. If you don’t want to do a backup, click on the Cancel button and let the tool run.

  • Once the rebuilding of the company file is completed, hit the OK button.

Conclusion:

Hopefully, we expect that you find this post quite informative and helpful. However, if you are still getting QuickBooks crash catcher error even after implementing the aforementioned steps in the post, then PLIST files, that contains properties and configuration settings, might have been damaged. Our recommendation for you is to delete PLIST files of both the user and system as QuickBooks will automatically create a new one. You can also reach our QuickBooks professionals at (844)-932-1139 for additional troubleshooting support.