I also have this experience fairly often, and I can often pinpoint
the kind of thing that causes it. It happens when an auto-save
starts just as I am performing a memory intensive operation -
starting playback, copying something in mass edit. It seems as if
Finale doesn't want do deal with the two things at once and doesn't
know which to give priority, so it hangs up.
This is quite consistent behavior for me.
Chuck
On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 6:32 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
i had just applied some doc options, hit ok and auto-save kicked
in to save a new (untitled) file and it seems to be hanging now,
but not crashed. clicking anywhere in the window does nothing, i
can still switch apps and come back to it, and can even move the
window, but i can't get out of the window (cancel with mouse or
keyboard) or save or name the file.
from the finder, i pulled up the force quit window and everything
seems fine with F05.
autosave still works, and it saved the file 2min before it sort of
hung so there is no loss, but what would cause this and is there a
way out without force quitting?
It sounds like a garden-variety program crash. Hangs and crashes
are pretty much the same thing; it makes the program stop working.
I'm amazed that a power user like yourself doesn't see them more
often, although you ARE using the relatively stable 2005 version.
2006 is OK, too, but 2007-2008 are quite unstable. I get that kind
of thing all the time nowadays.
Hiro mentioned that often if he gets the spinning beach ball, just
getting up and walking away to let the computer sort things out
itself often works. It might take twenty minutes, or it might end
in a "program not responding" in the force quit window, but it
might be worth a try if you have work at stake. I have about a
50:50 success rate with the "walk away and come back later" tactic.
On two different occasions, frequent crashes were the result of a
flaky RAM chip, which I was able to find with MemTest, as I
mentioned recently to Andrew S. on this list. The system reporting
a Kernel Panic sometimes when I was in Finder was a clue, too.
Christopher
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