Matthias--could you explain in more detail? I use Pathfinder too. Does it cause this problem, or fix this problem? Which version of StuffIt do you suspect?
A Matthias Schmidt ([email protected]) said on 1/8/09: >Hello, >looks like the crashes are connected to the installed stuff it engine. >Long time ago I had a simular problem. >Meanwhile I use Pathfinder, which installs always the last engine and I >also bought stuff it. >all the best >Matthias > >Am/On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:43:47 -0800 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper: > >>Well, PM support asked me to send crash logs, which I did regularly, but >>I never heard anything from them. I inquired whether they wanted me to >>continue, and didn't hear anything, so I stopped. >> >>Your symptoms are identical to mine. >> >>A >> >>Bill Schjelderup ([email protected]) said on 1/7/09: >> >> >>>Alan, >>> >>>I've been having these for a long time also. >>> >>>Higher frequency with v5 than v6, but still the same problem. >>> >>>I've sent many crash logs to ctmdev, but I have no idea if they have >>>helped or not. >>> >>>The vast majority of these seem to occur when I'm performing a drag >>>event and a message is received; other times when PM is trying to image >>>a HTML email and some background operation occurs. >>> >>>My theory is it's a threading problem...and clearly it's hard for them >>>to find. >>> >>>Perhaps if we ALL send crash logs it will help.... >>> >>>(about 50% of the time a relaunch is quick, the other 50% it needs to >>>rebuild sort indexes...) >>> >>>Oh, and this occurs on both my home and office machine (I carry my PM >>>database between offices via an external hard disk..) >>> >>>+-------------------------------------------+ >>> Bill Schjelderup -- [email protected] >>>+-------------------------------------------+ >>>>Hi >>>> >>>>PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern >>>>to the crashes, but they are usually (> 50%) followed by a 6-minute >>>>reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly >>>>to emails! >>>> >>>>Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing? >>>> >>>>Alan >>>> >>>>PS, FWIW, I had similar problems with PM 5. I have since reinstalled my >>>>entire system, and upgraded to PM 6. It appears that PM 6 crashes less >>>>often than 5, but not significantly so. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > >Thanks and all the best > >Matthias > >
