Editor crashes when I use the Scene window functions !

Unity Engine
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Hi there, new user here . . . so thanks in advance for any input !!

I have Unity 2017.3.0f3 installed on my iMac (OS X 10.9.5).

I’m having an issue where Unity will crash when I attempt to use any of the functions at the top of the Scene window . . . I’ve included an image below to show you what I mean . . .

. . . any of the buttons/pull-downs highlighted in red in the above image will crash Unity when clicked - specifically when you release the button after clicking . . . in fact with the navigation buttons (Move, Rotate, Scale . . . etc) you only need to hover over the button, wait for the little ‘tool tip’ window to pop up telling you what the button is, then when you move your mouse away (and the little tool tip window disappears) Unity crashes.

It seems to be just the buttons rather than the functionality of the buttons that is causing the issue - for example the Rotate button crashes Unity as I describe above, but I can still use the keyboard command to put me into the Rotate tool (bypassing having to click the actual button) and it works fine, same deal with the Play button, using the actual button will crash Unity, but using the keyboard command (Command+P) works fine without crashing.

I’ve tried everything I can think of to resolve the problem (which to be honest isn’t much, as I’m so new to Unity), I’ve deleted everything to do with Unity and done a fresh install, I’ve tried making new projects, using already made projects and so on . . . but no luck :eyes:

I would file a bug report, but when Unity crashes I get no other message/info than: ‘Unity quit unexpectedly’ - so I’m not sure how helpful that is to anyone.

Anyhow . . . any help really appreciated.

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double post

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EDIT - just to add to the above, this seems to be an issue with any of the little pop-up tooltip windows, wherever they appear, for example if I open Edit > Project Settings > Quality and then my cursor hovers over any of the options in that window (for example ‘Pixel light count’) a tooltip pops up as normal - but when I move my cursor away Unity dies . . .

Anyone else come across this problem or heard of something similar ? Anyone else successfully using the latest Unity with OSX 10.9.5 ?

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Same setup and same problem.

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Hey, Jrobson . . . . I found that if you downgrade your Unity to an older version it works just fine, you lose a few of the newer features, like the new transform tool, but at least it works.

Here is the link to older Unity versions:

https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive

I used 2017.1.0 (the version on the list from 10th July 2017), you might get away with a more recent version (but obviously not 2017.3.0), but 2017.1.0 is fine for me to learn Unity. (let me know if you get a more recent version to work and I’ll upgrade to that one!)

Good luck !