Strange behaviour from Unison

[subxero]

One of the 1st apps I bought for mac was Unison. It worked fine in Leopard and Snow Leopard. Since I updated to Lion, Unison quits at random and loses my entire queue of downloads. I have to manually check which files have downloaded and remove them after re-adding the nzb's over again. It also pauses files at random if left unattended.

Some of the files complete, but most download a couple of mb and go into pause mode - moving onto the next in the queue and doing the same. I end up with an entire download list with most files (split rar files) only half done with each of them showing as paused at various stages of download in the Transfers window - The resume button is greyed out. The only way to resume them is to quit Unison and relaunch it.

I have mailed Panic and they have not been all that helpful. I have updated to 2.1.7 and the problem persists. I have even tried deleting the Unison directory in User/Library/Application Support to force a re-build of settings before replacing the app in Applications folder.

Are there any other apps I could try (other than SABNZB) I need an app with the same functionality as Unison ie. ability to browse individual groups. From what I have read, it is the best / only app for newsgroup browsing available for mac.

 

[bwana]

Have you tried trashing the preference file? (com.panic.Unison2.plist)

 

[GreGorGy]

Strange to hear that Cabel has not responded. Try dropping a comment at MacUpdate and see if that gets his attention. Does the Console report the reason for the crash?

 

[subxero]

Decided to do a clean install of Lion. Managed to convert the Lion Install App to a bootable version on a USB stick, formatted my OS drive and re-installed Lion from scratch. Unison works again! 48 hours running and no random shutdowns and saves my download queue when I restart it. So glad, because it does appear that Unison is the only app of it's kind for Mac.

In fact, everything works so much smoother now than it did before. I am convinced that upgrading an OS is a bad idea. Not sure of Apple's thinking there. Even my boot times have increased from 40-45 seconds to an average of just 13 seconds. That's a vast difference.