Looks like a problem!

[Bruce Kieffer]

I'm trying to batch convert all of my 2023 files to 2024 and it appears that 16 GB of ram is not enough.

 

[rDesign]

1,242 is a lot of files to batch convert all at once. Have you successfully batch converted that many in prior Vw versions?

[Bruce Kieffer]

10 minutes ago, rDesign said:

1,242 is a lot of files to batch convert all at once. Have you successfully batch converted that many in prior Vw versions?

Yes. I have done all at once in all the previous versions.

[zoomer]

I do not really get why VW uses 80GB of RAM.

 

I assume VW just forgets to free the RAM again after the files are saved and closed (?)

For me it looks like batch convert opens, after each other,  each file to convert and save.

Maybe it opens more than a single file at once for multithreading but I never have

seen more than 3 File Tabs when batch converting.

 

I assume, currently VW grabs new RAM for each new file to convert but gives RAM

back only after batch convert has finished all jobs.

 

If this is the case,

I think the only option to avoid that is to start batch convert with small parts from all files.

I think this may be not comfortable but feasible - as I also assume that 1000+ files

may not lay in a single file folder but in some sub folders (?)

[JuanP]

@Bruce KiefferIt could also be a file or a set of files causing the issue. Do you know if the same file opens independently of Batch Convert (Serving Tray.vwx)? Could you share the file in the screen capture? Thanks

[Bruce Kieffer]

2 hours ago, JuanP said:

@Bruce KiefferIt could also be a file or a set of files causing the issue. Do you know if the same file opens independently of Batch Convert (Serving Tray.vwx)? Could you share the file in the screen capture? Thanks

I'm not sure. I will try again, but this time I will be ready for the Mac restart!

[Bruce Kieffer]

I did the batch convert on the rest of my files. There were less this time because more than 1/2 were done before. No out of memory issues this time.