Glyphs 2 crashes on opening due to persistent corrupt autosaved file

Glyphs
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OS X 10.10.4

Glyphs crashed after testing a cap component…(which I clearly messed up since the program crashed) and since then it crashes on open, can’t even get far enough to send a crash report. (Could be trying to reload a previous state?)

I don’t know what version I had before, but I deleted my .app and am using the version supplied at the download link at ‘Buy’. I deleted cache, saved states and preference files (not the main one at ~/Library/Application Support/ though). I even deleted the autosaved .glyphs file that had caused the initial problem.

Very frustrating as I can’d do any work at the moment.

Edit:
I deleted all associated Glyphs files using AppCleaner and restarted my computer, the first time I re-opened Glyphs App (789), it worked but still re-opened an autosaved version of the corrupt file… I don’t know how it found it, whether it’s in the system cache or something, How do I clear this cache…?

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Look at this insane left side bearing…

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The autosave is probably in the working directory of the original file and not in the temp directory.

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There should be a file with “(Autosave)” in the the name next to your original file. If you still have it, could you send it to me?

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I have deleted the directory because I knew it was opening the (Autosave) file, still Glyphs App is retrieving it somehow from a cache.

I delete all the following and it still persists… :fearful:

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I even tried to be clever and restore the original folder, and make a duplicate of a healthy file and added the " (Autosaved)" suffix. Still no use…

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Edit 1:
There was a preference file here that was pointing to an autosaved file (where? I have no idea…)

~/Library/Autosave Information/

I deleted this and Glyphs worked again… BUT when I tried to restore my previous settings it crashed again.

Edit 2:
I found my mistake, I had the newest (789) .app and instead I used an old (782) version and now it works. I found out it 789 didn’t work due to Georg changing the GlyphData.xml format: Glyphs 2.1.1 (789) Crashes on opening

I am now however terrified of using cap components.

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Is it possible to abandon a new version of Glyphs and re-install an older one?

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I explained it here: