willofmaine Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Hi, I have a file in which I can't update the viewports. Previously (at 101 MB file size) I had no problem cutting the sections to generate a permit set. Now (at 107 MB file size) I can't seem to cut sections. I get the endless spinning color wheel, and, a couple of times, a message that "One or more operations could not be completed due to lack of memory." Even worse, when I go back to the older file where I'd successfully cut sections before, that file won't work now, either. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether or not I have any other software running. I've shut down as many widgets as it seems OS X will let me in an effort to eliminate a 'memory leak.' Files for other projects, albeit significantly smaller files, still seem to work okay. Problems with cutting sections has been persistent for me. I'm using a top of the line Mac and do my best with maintenance, updates, permissions and so on. It's starting to get very frustrating. Has anyone had similar experiences and/or does anyone have any advice??? THANKS!!!!!!!! -Will Max Pro 2.66 GHz; 1 GB RAM; OS X 10.4.10; VW 12.5.2-71041; Architect +RenderWorks Quote Link to comment
quigley Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I note from your specs you have 1GB RAM? Thats a bit on the low side for a 100MB file especially if you have other apps running with VW (eg Mail/Safari?) For these kinds of files I'd recommend uping the RAM to 2GB minimum - indeed 4GB would be a safe choice. Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 I do just have 1 GB RAM, yes. So, it seems it would probably make sense to increase that. But I guess what I don't understand is why before I could cut sections, and now I can't, with only a minor increase to the file size. And, worse, why the older file that previously did work now doesn't! (Even with all other apps shut down and the computer freshly restarted, the problems persist). Do you have any good sources for RAM? I understand that getting it from Apple is maybe unnecessarily expensive... Thank you for your response! -Will Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Try crucial.com . Get as much as you can afford. RAM is good for your machine ;-) Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 By any chance are their any Layers from WGR files in that File. And if there are, did you rename or move any of the Directories. At 101mb that File is not considered exceptionally "large". Use your OSX Activity Monitor to sample the VW process threads. Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi Peter, thanks for the recommendation. I think I may have found the right memory at "memorytogo" - 4 GB for $264, which seems pretty good... Islandmon, In one of my projects I once inadvertently linked (attached) some resources (I'm not sure if this is the same thing?) and then finally figured out how to un-link them, but, otherwise, no WGR files. I'm glad to hear that 101mb isn't that large... it's only a 3 story, 6 unit apartment building (with some fair amount of detailing, including classical columns, but still...). I only discovered the OSX Activity Monitor this morning, and didn't really know what to make of it, actually. When I just opened up VW, and only VW, though, it showed the remaining 75% of RAM (except maybe 12 mb) turned blue. VW is kinda greedy, huh?... And a general update... I purged my file and deleted half the floors, which didn't help. I fixed the registry (? - replaced the preferences file) which didn't help. I forced daily/weekly/monthly Mac maintenance, and, voila, I was able (albeit excrutiatingly slowly) to successfully cut sections in both files! So, at least maybe they are not corrupt, and maybe more RAM is indeed the answer. At Mike m oz (?) 's suggestion I changed the 3D conversion res to low, and then even got acceptably fast section updates. So, progress!... Quote Link to comment
Jershaun Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi Once this happened to me where my sections was taking a long time to generate (but eventually did). I finally narrowed the problem down to my column symbols which was basically a sweep. I don't know but maybe check for this. Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi Shaun, Thanks for the suggestion. While I do have some column symbols with sweeps, I haven't added any since well before these problems started, so I like to think it couldn't be them... Thanks, Will Quote Link to comment
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