Beam - crashes when I try to open File>Preferences... menu

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I’d had Haiku’s default E-mail app set up previously but had not been having much success in configuring it to use Fastmail so I am now trying out Beam.

Unfortunately, when I click on the File>Preferences… menu, Beam crashes immediately. Any ideas on what may be wrong? I am using the rev59356 Walter nightly.

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I thought perhaps having the configuration for the mail daemon in the settings for the default E-Mail app was conflicting with Beam’s Preferences panel so I deleted all the email server settings I had in E-Mail. However, Beam still crashes when I try to open up the Preferences panel.

In case it might help, I’ve pasted in Beam’s debug report on Github gist. Thanks for your help. debug report

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This is a known issue, there is a workaround here Beam is broken on R1Beta5 - #13 by Diver

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Hi, thanks! How can I move the Beam folder out of /boot/system/apps/ folder? I can copy but the move menu item is greyed out.

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Move means that the files are deleted in the original location. This is impossible in this case because /boot/system/apps is read-only (packagefs). So the only option you have is to copy the folder. You could try to uninstall Beam via pkgman/HaikuDepot afterwards, if you want the folder under /boot/system/apps gone. But I’m not sure if that doesn’t have any unintended side effects. You just have to give it a try.

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I’m in a bit of a fix then. I’m trying to delete the spam file from /boot/system/apps/Beam/add-ons/Filters/ in order to fix Beam crashing when I try to open its Preferences panel.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to copy the Beam folder back in to the apps folder…

Beam crash workaround

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You can also just block the entry from the package. Create a text file at /boot/system/settings/packages with the following inside and then reboot…

Package beam {
	BlockedEntries {
		apps/Beam/add-ons/Filters/Spam
	}
}
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Can the text file be named anything? I made a text file with the name block-beam.txt in the boot/system/settings/packages folder, installed Beam from HaikuDepot, and rebooted.

Unfortunately, trying to open the Preferences panel still crashes Beam on my hrev59356 Haiku. Should I name the file something else perhaps?

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No, packages is the name of the file that contains the entries, it’s not a folder. Here are the full instructions for blocking package entries.

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Hi, Thanks for this. The linked instructions allowed me to open the Preferences panel in Beam without crashing it.
I now have the Beam mailer set up for a couple of my email accounts (including Fastmail) which is a big step forward.

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