Google Desktop has unexpectedly quit

[intelliot]

Google Desktop has unexpectedly quit. To restart, launch Google
Desktop from the Start Menu

Anyone know a solution to the problem? My roommate is running into it on his install of GDS 2.

[intelliot]

Ideas from Google Groups:

Hi! I've just subscribed to these groups here and browsed through older
topics. I haven't found what I'm about to write, sorry if I've
overlooked it.

I've successfully installed Google Desktop BETA on two Notebooks, both
had a flawless index run that ran in an reasonable amount of time.
Then, there's my desktop PC.

The indexing ran for a whole day, it was stuck at 81 %. On the next day
in the morning, after not using my PC over night, I got a dialog box
reading "Google Desktop has unexpectedly quit.". It also told me to
restart Google Desktop, without giving me a reason why it shut down in
the first place.

Since then (about two weeks now), I'm continuously restarting Google
Desktop because it gives me the mentioned dialog, without any apparent
success. The current status:

13% complete with about 18,1 idle hours left.
169.621 items indexed so far.

Yes, the percent decreased from 81 % down to 13 % without an appearant
reason either. Is there a way to make it index everything, running in
foreground? Is there some kind of log-file where I can look what caused
all the problems?

Thanks!

rck

I have installed new version of GDS and I have these problems:
Instead of never-ending indexing of Gmail, after one hour or something
GDS always fell down and this error message is written: "Google Desktop
has unexpectedly quit. To restart, launch Google Desktop from Start
menu".

Anyone with same problem?

gdes... at gmail.com

I have the same problem too! I don't get an error though, it just
flashes and sends itself behind other windows. I can see only a sliver
of it on my screen, and when I click on the very rightmost pixel, I can
see only the outline of it for dragging.

> I love GDS2. But when I leave to go do something, when I come back it
> always says GDS2 crashed and it's shut down. Has this happened to
> anyone else? If someone has a fic it would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you!

It crashes all the time, most of it while indexing media files. More
specifically, I believe it doesn't like oggs or avis with ogg sound. (I
had an ogg directshow foo in the tray after every crash.)


Jono Aug 29, 4:14 pm
I'll second that - definitely something to do with avis and I think
divx encoding for me.

[lwodom]

I have the same issue. Desktop continues to fail as it attempts to load, then errors out with "Google desktop has unexpectedly quit". It has been working great for seems like a good month almost, ever since install. Running XP

Is anyone at Google listening...?
Help !

[lwodom]

I believe I have resolved my problem with GD quiting unexpectedly by checking folder access rights. I run an Admin account and a seperate User account. Some how I managed to modify my User account rights to the GD folder. GD would try to start, blink a alot and error out. After I revised the User access rights, GD returned and has been working great since !
Hope this helps someone.
Larry...

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[anacreo]

I don't know if this solution will work for everyone. But I finally upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003 and the problem went away until then it was exactly the same. Google had indexed a small percentage and then would unexpectedly quit a few minutes after it was restarted every time.

I didn't experience a problem using the old Google Desktop with Office 2000.

I hope that helps someone else out there.

[johnrtkach]

I have the same issue. I receive the message "Google desktop has unexpectedly quit" when I not even using anything related to Google. I just send in the report, but it is getting terribly annoying, because it happens each and every time I log in to my iMac.

Is anyone at Google listening...?
Help !