Crash on (Auto)Save!

[VincentCuclair]

This is not a wish but more of a demand:

VWs 2012 is quite stable however very frequent crashes occur when Autosave (without confirm) is set and regular crashes occur even with confirm set. Why? How? this really beats the idea of autosave!

This is a long standing problem that really needs attention!

(If i recall correctly it became much worse after SP4 came out...?!)

Edited August 31, 2012 by Vincent C

[Christiaan]

+1

Can't confirm for sure but I got the feeling it was happening more when autosave and zooming with magic mouse coincided.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

VW also crashes on closing. Talk about strange...

[VincentCuclair]

VW also crashes on closing. Talk about strange...

Same here, not always but often....?

[Christiaan]

My current favourite crash is when switching between a model file and workgroup referenced file.

I love how workgroup referencing nearly always finds a way of making an appearance in my VW problems.

[Christiaan]

I've found a workaround for the switching between files crash. Each time I want to switch away from the model file I close it.

[Kevin McAllister]

Vectorworks often crashes when I quit. I thought it was something to do with my system but it sounds like it may not be....

Vincent, are you using number of actions or a time interval setting for autosave? I've found it crashes much less often using number of actions.

Kevin

[Benson Shaw]

I wonder if there is something deep in the hardware which can get corrupted by a crash, but never gets fixed with the standard maintenance scripts, permission repairs, reboots, etc. My old PowerBook running whatever OS10.x was current with VW2010 started crashing about every 10 minutes in Vectorworks. Maybe the RAM was going bad or ???. No other software experienced crashes. I changed up to a new MacBook Pro and new copy of the OS - no crashes for days.

VW2012 is behaving really well for me, and has from the start. Fingers crossed for v2013. If it's bloatware, I may be in trouble.

-B

[Assembly]

i get the VW crash on quit sometimes.

I dont get crash on autosave. My autosave settings are to save every 50 commands with 4 backup files selected.

[Alan H]

Looks like I am getting frequent crashes now since updating to SP5.

(Surprisingly I didn't have many problems with SP4 crashing)

The crashing happens when I have more than one file open and switch from one file to another.

Anybody else experiencing this yet?

[VincentCuclair]

That's one way to get people to upgrade......

Edited September 14, 2012 by Vincent C

[Alan H]

Yeah, I wish I hadn't!

Like everyone else has posted, I think it is related to the autosave and this is probably why my most recent backups are corrupt (if i go to my next backup it is usually ok).

So the scenario when i get these crashes seems to be: when I have more than one file open and autosave is on.

Please fix this, this is really frustrating!

Edited September 18, 2012 by Alan H