Ok, cleaned it all off, did a reinstall. When I have time next couple of days I’ll go through all your suggestions as a last ditch effort.
Thanks, Bill On August 13, 2020 at 2:11:50 PM, AKS-Gmail-IMAP ([email protected]) wrote: You have fallen sprang right up into a couple of pitfalls without getting the satisfaction of seeing Hugin’s magic. But you are still trying, which is good because it means you can keep working during later troubles. I believe you have Hugin and PTBatcherGUI stuck in a funk. You should double check the system access settings. I re-downloaded Hugin thinking that perhaps your’s might be fresher and I was surprised to see OS X had “unchecked” Hugin’s privileges on my system. You are using Hugin’s “Simple” interface. The Simple interface hides Hugin’s complexity. Hugin is a conductor application that passes the images through a number of individual image programs. The Create Panorama, known as Stitching, is a handoff of the PTO file, an instruction script, to the PTBatcherGUI program. The mechanism for individual image programs to process images is a text string instruction to the operating system to execute the program just like you would do manually for a command line execution. Whitespace, ie space characters, is what the computer system uses to separate the text instructions in the command line. Having space characters in filenames, which are of course part of the command arguments being passed at every process step in the stitch process, is the bane of all schemes that need to pass arguments. That handoff to PTBatcherGUI involved a script file and a state file in a temporary scratch space on your system. The PTBatcherGUI window loaded behind Hugin. You might have seen it. Due to the crash the state file PTBatcherGUI uses remains in the scratch space. PTBatcherGUI knows to tell you about it on subsequent runs, but it never gets that far in the funk it is in. Keep in mind the system access setting or the file name spaces can cause the crash. Prior to knowing about the OS X system access settings issue the workaround for Catalina users is to start PTBatcherGUI ahead of time. In other words have it running so that Hugin does not need to start it. The Hugin to PTBatcherGUI handoff would work fine in that condition. Spaces in the filename could still be a problem. Run PTBatcherGUI and remove all the failed projects in its projects list. You can do that be pressing the minus button while the file project is selected. With PTBatcherGUI still running, run your Hugin and have it make the Panorama with no spaces in the file name. You will see the project pass through PTBatcherGUI if the project takes long enough for you to see it show up. Later on you can close out PTBatcherGUI and try another Hugin project to see if the PTBatcherGUI startup and handoff goes smoothly. Best of luck. On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Bill Meador <[email protected]> wrote: Well, upgraded to 10.15.6, download a fresh installer, Set Privacy to allow all programs to run and set all three Hugin apps to full disc access. Ran the program, loaded images, did an align, chose to Create Panorama, got the dialog box for saving the .pto and named it Hug for saving in the same folder as the imaged (that is the default), got the dialog box for naming the panorama image, called it Hug also (keeping with the suggested simple naming conventions). CRASHED immediately after saying ok to the saving boxes…….same error as before (see attached). This software has serious flaws folks, you’ll notice that the error message references a file name unrelated to anything I typed in. For sure will no longer consider buying the professional paid version, if they can’t get freeware to work that would be flushing money down the drain. Respects, Bill On August 13, 2020 at 3:10:05 AM, AlainC ([email protected]) wrote: aks is right : any blank or accented character in pto name or path will fail, keep using simple ASCII for file and directory names Hugin and Adobe CS work fine with last Catalina as soon you setup security grants. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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