[Update] Harmony Restored to My Ivory Tower

Posted on February 16th, 2008

As a follow up post to my earlier Leopard lament, the lovely and luscious Christina Warren of TUAW fame refered me to a thread in the Apple Support forums regarding a similar problem stemming from a corrupted input plugin found in App4Mac’s RapidoWrite. As it so happens, I did have RapidoWrite installed once upon a time, but later banished it from my system (thank you AppZapper), never to be seen or heard from again… or so I thought.

It seems RapidoWrite left me with an unwanted parting gift that was the cause of my despair. Heeding the advice in that aforementioned Apple forum thread, I reinstalled RapidoWrite - rebooted my Mac - then relaunched all previously afflicted applications, such as Journler and Address Book, and voila! No more gibberish text. Thank you, Apple Support forum, and thank you Christina.