Hi, I've brought this up before, but I still have no solution for this issue, so I will give it another try: Does anyone have boost 1.34.1 compiled on MacOS 10.5 where exceptions can be caught? You might use the following code to test: --cut here-- #include <iostream> #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> using namespace std; using namespace boost::filesystem; int main() { try { directory_iterator i("does_not_exist"); } catch(...) { cout << "This is never printed on MacOS 10.5." << endl; } return 0; } --cut here-- If this works with your installation of boost on MacOS 10.5, please tell me which steps you did to compile boost, and whether you used the static or dynamic version. A related question is: Is boost "supposed to work" on MacOS 10.5? Thanks, Lothar