diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 87a10ea48..a348a1bf2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     "season": "0.14.0",
     "semver": "1.1.4",
     "space-pen": "2.0.0",
-    "telepath": "0.21.0",
+    "telepath": "0.23.0",
     "temp": "0.5.0",
     "underscore-plus": "0.2.0"
   },
diff --git a/src/root-view.coffee b/src/root-view.coffee
index b482ef6b7..4d2ad289a 100644
--- a/src/root-view.coffee
+++ b/src/root-view.coffee
@@ -179,15 +179,18 @@ class RootView extends View
     editSession = activePane.itemForUri(project.relativize(filePath)) if activePane and filePath
     promise = project.open(filePath, {initialLine}) if not editSession
 
-    Q(editSession ? promise).then (editSession) =>
-      if not activePane
-        activePane = new Pane(editSession)
-        @panes.setRoot(activePane)
+    Q(editSession ? promise)
+      .then (editSession) =>
+        if not activePane
+          activePane = new Pane(editSession)
+          @panes.setRoot(activePane)
 
-      activePane.showItem(editSession)
-      activePane.focus() if changeFocus
-      @trigger "uri-opened"
-      editSession
+        activePane.showItem(editSession)
+        activePane.focus() if changeFocus
+        @trigger "uri-opened"
+        editSession
+      .catch (error) ->
+        console.error(error.stack ? error)
 
   # Private: Only used in specs
   openSync: (uri, {changeFocus, initialLine, pane, split}={}) ->
diff --git a/src/text-buffer.coffee b/src/text-buffer.coffee
index f08d4f489..da5d9acf1 100644
--- a/src/text-buffer.coffee
+++ b/src/text-buffer.coffee
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class TextBuffer
       @useSerializedText = @state.get('isModified') != false
     else
       {@project, filePath} = optionsOrState
-      @text = new telepath.MutableString(initialText ? '')
+      @text = new telepath.String(initialText ? '', replicated: false)
       @id = guid.create().toString()
       @state = site.createDocument
         id: @id