This document explains the different settings available in the Preferences window of Unexpectedly.

This pane lets you choose whether the registers window should be visible at the launch of the application, which application should be used to open source files or which application should be the default one at the system level to open .crash report files.

To show or hide the Registers window when you open the Unexpectedly application:

To change the application to use to open local source files found by the symbolication process:

To change the default application used by the system to open .crash report files:

This pane lets you define which components of a stack frame should be visible in reports.

It also lets you choose whether to show line numbers, wrap text or which sections should be visible by default in text reports.

To show or hide line numbers in text reports:

To change the line wrapping style of text reports:

To set which sections should be visible by default:

To set which components of a stack frame should be visible by default:

This pane lets you select the current theme to use for textual reports, manage the themes and edit them.

A theme influences the appearance of text reports by defining which font and color should be used for each type of data, and which background and selection colors should be used.

To use a theme:

To edit a theme:

To rename a theme:

To create a new theme:

To remove a theme:

To export a theme:

To import a theme:

To restore the list of default themes:

This pane lets you select whether Unexpectedly should try to resolve the symbols in the backtraces of reports and whether it should automatically look for the appropriate symbol files (.dSYM).

You can also manually add or remove symbol files from the list.

To enable or disable the resolution of symbols:

To enable or disable the automatic search of symbol files:

To manually add symbol files:

To remove a symbol file:

This pane lets you define if or when the "Unexpectedly Quit" dialog is displayed. It provides the same settings as the CrashReporterPrefs.app application which is part of the Additional Developer Tools (1).

Operation Mode	Behavior
Basic	The Unexpectedly Quit dialog is only displayed for any application run by the user that crashed.
Developer	The Unexpectedly Quit dialog is displayed for any process (application or background) run by the user that crashed.
Server	The Unexpectedly Quit dialog is never displayed.

Notification Mode	Behavior
Alert Dialog	When an application quits unexpectedly, an alert window is displayed in the center of the main screen inviting you to report the issue to Apple.
System Notification	When an application quits unexpectedly, a system notification is displayed. If you click the notification, an alert window is displayed in the center of the main screen inviting you to report the issue to Apple.

To change the operation mode of macOS Crash Reporter:

To change the notification mode of macOS Crash Reporter:

To also report uncaught exceptions:

This panes lets you define whether Unexpectedly should automatically look for updates or whether the Debug menu should be visible or not.

To enable or disable the automatic update checks:

To show or hide the Debug menu: