On 12 Oct 2008, at 16:54, Karol Kovarik wrote:
After a new install everything works fine as before... It is really weird as I still do not know what happened as I surely didn't play with these files before as it worked out of the box for me...
The problem is with the Python functions used to read the preferences file, it can give the error when the preferences file contain certain characters, and since your preferences file stores a lot of things like recent search strings etc. it can happen that a problematic character enteres the file.
That said, if you go to TextMate → Preferences → Software Update and switch to Cutting Edge, it has a fix for the Python preferences reader.