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by psyklic 6093 days ago
I've had this happen many times on random users' systems. If the user is nice enough to work with you (and they were in my case since they were caught pre-deployment in contract work), you can often ask them to try new things with a dev build for instance.

The main key is to reproduce the errors on your system, so just try a bunch of wacky things like different screen resolutions, memory constraints, database configurations, etc. Continually look at the code and brainstorm what might cause that issue -- there are a limited number of code paths -- and try to cause the constraints in your code. It's definitely very specific to the individual situation.