skype crashes on mac when i click icon to open

[miapitcher]

I have spent all day trying to figure this out. I have reinstalled 4 times now, I have done EVERYTHING recommended including everything they recomend:

If you are still having problems try to change the default text-to-speech voice on your Mac: 

1. Go to: System Preferences and open the Speech pane.
2. Select Text to Speech and change the System Voice to anything else besides the selection you currently have.

You can also try disabling Voice Over assistance.
 
To disable Voice Over:

1. Go to: System Preferences > Universal Access
2. Turn Voice Over off. 

Note that the minimum system requirements for Skype 5.0 for Mac OS X are:

• 1GHz Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 (Leopard) or newer
• 1 GB RAM
• 100MB Free disk space

We are also aware of a problem with a sound enhancement software called Hear, which is developed by a third party company. You can uninstall Hear from your system, if you have it installed, as this may help:
(http://www.joesoft.com/products/hear.php

Finally, Mac comes with many pre-installed fonts, some of which may become corrupt causing Skype to crash: 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2509 
 
To check a font for possible corruption:

1. Open Font Book by selecting it in Finder > Go > Applications and clicking it.
2. Select the font you suspect is corrupt from the Font column in the Font Book application and choose Validate Font from the Action menu.
3. The Font Validation window will open, showing if the font passed or shows problems. 

CAN ANYBODY HELP PLEASE????

[AnnaTomic]

Hi Mia,

You may have a malware on your mac. This happened to me.

See the info here:
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Fingers crossed you don't have it.

Anna

[AnnaTomic]

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[AnnaTomic]

For some reason I can't post the URL, but go to the intego website and look at their blog.

[anjelahjohnson]

i also have this problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Has anyone found a solution?

[Foyan]

Hi,

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10916/Why-does-Skype-for-Mac-OS-X-crash-my-computer ?

Hth