# Nothing but problems with JabRef 4 on Mac!

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/nothing-but-problems-with-jabref-4-on-mac/952>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/nothing-but-problems-with-jabref-4-on-mac/952 "2017-12-14T09:31:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![heico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@heico](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/heico)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/nothing-but-problems-with-jabref-4-on-mac/952/1 "2017-12-14T09:31:08Z")

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Hi all.

First of all, I am a big fan of JabRef. Well, have been, up to v3.  
Now JabRef has insisted on an update to v4 (I’m using Mac OSX Sierra, not High).  
Having done the update, I only get problems. To name the three most recent ones:  
(1) I cannot use ctrl+a etc. to have the cursor jump back and forth as one usually can do in an text editor. This has worked before. (Furthermore I cannot change colors of the text editor / entry field…)  
(2) JabRef has removed some of the bibtex entries I have created by hand in the bibtex file (!)  
(3) Now, and this is the most recent one causing high blood pressure in my veins: I cannot view my bibtex entries anymore, JabRef rather crashes then displaying them.

In order to justify my choice of forum, here’s my question: How can I revert back to JabRef v3?  
The alternative is to not use this nonsense anymore at all…

Thanks,  
heico

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**Author:** ![tobiasdiez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tobiasdiez/32/340_2.png) [@tobiasdiez](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/tobiasdiez)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/nothing-but-problems-with-jabref-4-on-mac/952/2 "2017-12-14T16:53:45Z")

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I’m sorry to here about your problems with version 4.0. We had three open beta runs, but since not a lot of Mac users participated most bugs were unfortunately only reported after the release. In the mean time, most of the issues you experience should be fixed in the current [development version](https://builds.jabref.org/master/) (which will be released as 4.1 in a few days). I would ask you to report the remaining bugs at [github](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues).

If nothing helps and you really want to go back, you [find the old releases at github](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases). But note that the groups are not backward-compatible (i.e. they are no longer shown in old versions).