Patrik

I?m giving it up! Now I have tried to reinstall OS X and only install vw to avoid conflicts with other software but vw still crash. I?ve checked Apple Support for new grapchic card firmware but they have nothing relased. I?ve also talked to our local apple service but they have never heard of conflicts with the graphic card. Now I have spent to much of my expensive time trying to solve this problem and i have come to the conclusion that I?m going back to OS 9 and vw 8 that works. The difference is?nt a revulotion so tell me why I should spend time on news that does?nt work. I?m not intrested in if this is an apple or a nemetscheck problem, the thing is that it does?nt work. I?m sorry to say this but I can?t use a tool that does?nt work.

Hi Katie. Now I hav updated my OS with the combo updater ( I found it on Apple support pages under downloads) But ... no big suprise, it still crashes. I have again runned the verify and repair disk permissions but with no result. We are six who working on vw here and we use four 400Mhz G4 power PC and two of us is working on Powerbook 400Mhz G4 titanium. So far everybody have crashing problems but it seems like the powerbooks is doing it better than the power PC:s. Is this telling you anything. How much has the workfile size to say in this? What about the dongle? Have you heard anything about the graphic card that I mentioned id the first thread? I must say that I?m impressed over all feedback that I get on this pages/ from you Katie (even if our problem is?nt solved yet ) Patrik

Thanks Katie. There is no reset buttom in the vw preferences panel under the edit tab in our version of vw. ( Norwegian vw 9.5.3b2) But i think i have solved the problem by doing it manually as you described it. It also became clear to me that the Arcitect worksapce file was corrupt. I copied the file from another machine and replaced mine. Now it works again but I guess i have to try it for a while before I can say that the problem i pemanently solved. When it comes to my second issue I?ve tried both way of switching between files but when minimizing to dock I get the "working in the hidden window" problem Switching by usingthe window drag down menu is still working so I guess I have to use that one and not enjoy all the OS X features. Patrik

VW was a good friend for a few days but now the crashes is back again. I?ve tried to run Verify Disk Permissions and Fix Disk Permissions again but with no result. We are pretty fed up with vw right now. What is this problem? Is it just us fighting with it? Any good Ideas that can help us? Maybe vw 10 and OS X is better friends? Help us before another cad application does it.

My tool pallettes is not always showing up when I start up VW (9.5.3b2 on mac OS 10.2.4) I have to pick them one by one from the palletes menu. I?ve also tried to open the palettes by select another workspace from the archive menu but no palettes. Anyone knows what this is about , any solution of the problem? Another strange thing, that has nothing to do with the palette problem, appers when I work in several drawings at the same time and jump between them by putting the drawings that I don?t work in the dock (OS X). Sometimes when I jump to another drawing I?ve noticed that vw does?nt always work in the document that appears on top of all drawings on the screen. (an OS X problem I thing but so far I?ve just seen it in vw) The old way of doing it , jumping between open drawings by select them in the window menu is still working.

My built in memory is 512 MB. We started with 192 MB but vw worked slow and since we noticed that OS X used 128MB of them there was not much left for vw. Sometimes i run other applications at the same time, mostly mail and iCal. It also happens that I listen to music in iTunes but I cant see any diffrence in speed because of that. Its only when i use internet radio i can see a little difference in speed. My maximum number of undos is set to 20. It seems like this slowing down after a while has nothing to do with other applications, all of us here have an experience of it and my neaerest neighbour is of some reason scared about multitasking (even if this should?nt be a problem in OS X) but even he has this slow down problem.

Thanks for all help. I tried to run Verify Disk Permissions and Fix Disk Permissions, and so far it seems like it works. Vectorworks has been up for about 20 hours without any crash. There is just one thing left to fix. After about one our working vw beginning to slow down, all commands just take more time to do. When this comes we close vw and start it again and viola, its quick again. But why is it like this?

On my and on some other machines (both OS 10.2.3 and OS 10.2.4) in our office VW is crashing all the time. My machine is the worst one with crashes every 5 min. We all get a crash log tath looks like this: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000000c This tells me that somethig is trying to write in a memory somewhere but is not given permission to do it with the result that VW crash. First we were suspicious about the USB dongle and comunication conflicts between the dongle and other processes in the OS. But now we are suspecting the graphic card because VW often crashes when we use the zoom and pan commands or working with windows for exampel when we close the application. We have also noticed that we have different versions of the ROM# on our graphic cards. The latest one is working best. Have anyone seen anything like this before and does anybody know how to prevent these crashing problems?