Maybe a text encoding thing?  

We searched the script in a text editor. It wasn’t a difference of one or two 
close braces missing - it was hundreds, maybe thousands. 


On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:13 PM, visfxsup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maverick s compresses ram on the fly.  Maybe it doesn't do it very well.  
> 
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> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Nathan Rusch <[email protected]> 
> Date: 11/27/2013 3:04 PM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> 
> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Mocha rotospline imports corrupt scripts on 
> Mavericks 
> 
> 
> Bad cloned nodes saved in a script will result in an error like "Nothing is 
> named $C423F412", and are easy to recover from. "Missing close brace" is a 
> different issue, and one that, in my experience, seems to occur most 
> frequently with node types that serialize to large strings (Roto/RotoPaint, 
> Tracker4, SplineWarp/GridWarp, etc).
>  
> Pure speculation, but if it’s not a general Roto/RotoPaint bug (which I would 
> guess first and foremost), perhaps Mavericks includes some low-level changes 
> to the way files are buffered or written that is causing it to forget to 
> finish writing the script.
>  
> -Nathan
> 
>  
> From: Randy Little
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:42 AM
> To: Nuke user discussion
> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Mocha rotospline imports corrupt scripts on 
> Mavericks
>  
> cloned nodes.   You can work with cloned nodes for quit a while with no 
> problems.   But sooner or later the likely hood of the CLONE WILL WIPE OUT 
> YOUR COMP bug will arise.  
>  
>  
> Randy S. Little
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> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Craig Tozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wait - are you referring to clone brushes or cloned nodes?  We have the 
> former but not the latter.
>  
> I was the artist on the Mavericks workstation and used clones a fair amount 
> through the project, without problems...
>  
> 
> 
> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have gotten into the habit of making sure to, first, De-Clone any nodes 
>> that I am copying and pasting from one script into another. Otherwise, it’s 
>> a sure way to screw things up..
>>  
>> Rich
>> 
>>  
>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:38 AM, RsLittle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Its the clones.  Ones that did corrupt WILL at the worst possible time.  
>>> Clones are russian roulette.
>>>  
>>>  
>>> From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Craig Tozzi <[email protected]> 
>>> Date: 11/27/2013 11:28 AM (GMT-05:00) 
>>> To: Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> 
>>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Mocha rotospline imports corrupt scripts on 
>>> Mavericks 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> He did, but there were other rotopaint nodes in the scripts from this 
>>> project that didn’t come from Mocha (also using clones) that didn’t cause 
>>> any problems.
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Randy Little <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> are you sure thats not the "CLONE Bug" Sure sounds like it.     did the 
>>>> artist on Mavericks CLONE something.  (anything)
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Craig Tozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Discovered a weird bug on this project we’re wrapping up:
>>>> 
>>>> An artist using a Mac workstation running Snow Leopard had used Mocha Pro 
>>>> and imported a rotospline into Nuke (7.09).  He continued to work on the 
>>>> shot with no issues.
>>>> 
>>>> That Nuke script was later loaded onto another workstation that was 
>>>> running Mavericks and Nuke 7.09.  The shot was worked on further for about 
>>>> a half a day, with multiple versions being saved.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem: once the script was closed, it was found corrupt upon 
>>>> reopening, with <missing close brace> and EOF errors.  This ONLY occurred 
>>>> if the script was opened and saved under Mavericks.  Earlier versions of 
>>>> the script that had only been used under Snow Leopard would open and close 
>>>> without problem.
>>>> 
>>>> It’s an ugly thing to find out, as you can go for a time before 
>>>> discovering that your script has blown up.
>>>> 
>>> 
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