Unsanity, LLC is dedicated to providing quality support. Please read our FAQ before emailing us to streamline the process.

Lost Registration Information

If you have lost your registration information, enter the e-mail you used when registering, and all the needed information will be sent to you immediately.

Product Support

Select a product from the list to view the Frequently Asked Questions for it:

Or, select a category of FAQs to view:

GeneralSoftware ProductsPurchasing & Orders

Frequently Asked Questions

Top Questions for Support

Will your applications be compatible with Mac OS X 10.6?

We are hard at work getting Application Enhancer and our haxies compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please keep an eye on our official lines of communication (website - http://www.unsanity.com, blog - http://www.unsanity.org, newsletters - http://www.unsanity.com/list, etc.) for more information on compatibility releases, calls for beta testers, and other updates, and watch our compatibility page at http://www.unsanity.com/products/compatibility. Also our Twitter @haxies and @haxiesbeta for most up-to minute info.

Permalink

What is your refund policy?

We offer complete refunds up to 30 days after the purchase date.

We may refuse a complete refund request (or offer a partial refund only) if the problem that prompted the refund could have occurred before you purchased the software (such as cannot download the software, a problem that occurs within 10 minutes of using it (we offer 15 day trials), or you are running Microsoft Windows)

So please, please download the trial software and make sure it does what you want it to do before purchasing it.

Permalink

I want to run your haxies under the 'root' user. What can I do?

Sorry, there is no way to run our haxies or other Application Enhancer as root. This is both for security reasons and technical reasons.

Permalink

How can I uninstall an application?

The best way to get rid of one of our applications is to use the built-in uninstaller. Double-click the " Installer" icon and click on the "Uninstall" button (the installer will move all that application's files to the Trash - it will never actually delete any files on your system).

Finally, log out and then log back in to complete the process.

Permalink

Is Smart Crash Reports a System Extension?

No, none of our products are system extensions. In fact, the term "system extension" only applies to Mac OS 9 and was used to refer to software products that patch "traps" in the Mac OS. These extensions affected all processes and all users (not that Mac OS 9 had complete multiple user support). Most of them were drivers or other very low level items. A few others granted some extra features. Since they were system wide, it was not possible to isolate them to a particular process or user and a simple bug in one would take down the entire system. Kernel Extensions (KEXTs) are most analogous to system extensions in the days of yore. Apple's documentation for KEXTs begins with reasons you should not use them. None of our products use or install KEXTs.

Smart Crash Reports works by affecting one process, the Crash Reporter (located at /System/Library/CoreServices/CrashReporter.app) which is launched only when an application crashes. SCR does nothing to any other process. It also needs no direct support from an SCR enabled application to work. This is why the minimum addition to enable Smart Crash Reports in an application is two new entries inside a text file included with every Mac OS X application.

However, due to a limitation in the Apple created mechanism SCR uses, InputManagers, Smart Crash Reports will appear in the crash logs of all Cocoa applications. See this support entry for more information.

Permalink

Why is Smart Crash Reports appearing in every crash log? (or) SCR is causing Application crashes!

Due to the way InputManagers work, they load into every application as soon as AppKit is initialized. This means that SCR, being an InputManager, will appear in the crash logs. However, this does not mean that crash is caused by SCR. The only thing that SCR does in applications that SCR is loaded in is to check to see if the currently running application is Apple's CrashReporter application or not. It does this by checking the result of [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier] isEqualToString:@"com.apple.CrashReporter"]. If that returns false, then no other code is run inside the process.
- init
{
	if (self=[super init])
	{
		NSString* bundleID = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];
		
		if (bundleID && [bundleID isEqualToString:@"com.apple.CrashReporter"])
		{
			SInt32 sysVers;
			
			if (Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersion, &sysVers) == noErr &&
			sysVers >= 0x1040 && sysVers < 0x1050)
			{
				// initialize SCR for CrashReporter
			}
		}
	}
	
	return self;
}

Permalink

Why can't crash logs be sent only to the developers of an application?

This was considered, but we decided against it. Crash Reporter was originally designed by Apple so Apple could easily receive crash logs that may be caused by real bugs in OS X, or a gross developer misunderstanding how an API should be used, or some interaction that would be difficult to find without a pile of crash logs to analyze. There is also the issue of false positives to consider. A crash log may trigger SCR for a product but the actual crash may have nothing at all to do with the product but instead be a bug in Mac OS X that occurs in a callback function.

Giving developers access to those logs helps them track down bugs faster and easier in their apps, just as it helps Apple to find bugs in their applications and OS X, which is a win for users. If did not send the crash logs onto Apple as well, it may end up reversing the situation instead of improving it. If crash reports were not sent to Apple, there is the potential for bugs and problems becoming harder for Apple to find and fix. While we can understand why developers might want this, we have decided to err on the side of caution because we fear Apple not receiving reports could harm users in the long run.

Permalink

Is there a universal build of Smart Crash Reports?

Yes. The latest releases are Universal.

Permalink

Note: To view product specific questions and answers, select your product from the list at the top right.

Click here to View all of the frequently asked questions for this product/category.