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zacharypinter on Feb 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

Tried it out by sending an email to myself (from webmail) and opening the mail in Mail.app. Mail.app doesn't crash, but if you hit reply to the message and put the cursor on the "File:///" part, it does crash.

zhoutong on Feb 2, 2013 | [–]

Reproduced on Sparrow with success. Whenever you touch the line with File://(/) it will crash.

In one instance the Sparrow crash caused the entire mail library to be corrupt and I have to download all my mails again.

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