I have been having this problem for a month or two now. Everytime I try to apply the effect, After Effects immediatly crashes and saves a secondary version of the project.
Here is the information provided by the crash report:
Process: After Effects [1146]
Path: /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC/Adobe After Effects CC.app/Contents/MacOS/After Effects
Identifier: com.adobe.AfterEffects
Version: 12.0 (12.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [177]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2013-09-18 12:46:07.777 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report: 14217 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 221408 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 387CA782-C5C5-43FA-3905-FBF2343641E8
Please let me know if anyone knows of an update, or a workaround to this. I do not like having to go back to CS6 just to apply the numbers effect.
Thanks