I have had this issue with saving stacks and I agree it seems to be random. I am using a 15" MacBook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz). I have read over the posts in this thread to see if there are any clues. Some of the possible causes that have been suggested don't apply to my situation.
I have tried to eliminate any of the issues that have been raised as possible factors and I still get a crash randomly. I don't think Login items are an issue -In my regular user account I have only two login items -Snapz Pro -itunes Helper I don't have any of the software installed that others have mentioned namely -EyeTV plugin -USBOverdrive -xKeys iKey -iStat and yet I still get crashes so I don't think any of these is the real culprit. After reading the posts about corrupt preference files and permissions, I created a brand new user account to ensure new preferences files were created. I also ran disk utility to repair permissions. I doubt it would be permissions anyway since most of the time the files will save without a freeze. The freeze is random. Also as a basic form of versioning I continually make duplicates of of my revolution stacks in the Finder and rename them with a higher version number and then open these and work on the new file. These files should have their permissions set correctly as the user that created them in the Finder is also the one opening and saving them in Revolution Studio. I also ensured that there were no login items in this new user account. After working must of the day ii this configuration I got another freeze. One interesting thing is that the freeze is not a total system freeze. It is just the video that is frozen and Revolution is hung, and the keyboard is not responsive ie. can't force quit with key combo. Other processes and apps continue to run in the background. I can login to the frozen Mac Book Pro remotely with terminal running on another Mac that is on the local network and run commands line commands to look at running processes ie. top and ps. I can also 'kill' Revolution remotely from the command line but that does not allow me to use the Mac again, the screen is still frozen. I can also issue a command to shutdown remotely and the Mac shuts down. I have used Revoultion studio 2.8.1 prior to this to work on my application and never had any freezes. This only started happening with 2.9. The stack that I have been working on has 3 Players that play quicktime movies, One of those players is in a substack that is opened as a palette periodically. I wonder, since it seems that it is the video that freezes, if it is something to do with the quicktime movies. Another possible issue is that the stack is larger than the Mac Book Pro's display. The application is targeted for a 20" iMac but I develop on the 15" Mac Book Pro so portions of the stack windows are off screen. Again this was the case when I was working on the application with 2.8.1 so it is a new issue with 2.9. I won't be going to Runrev live this month but I hope that someone who is experiencing the freezes is going and can demonstate it to the developers. I am using the workarounds suggested (such as saving by script instead of with the menu or key combination) to avoid the crashes but it creates extra work and sometimes you slip up. Hopefully there will be a fix for this soon. Martin _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
