[RichG]

I have a large image (6000x4000px) which I set rendering last night on 2 Macs in co-operative mode. When I came in today, my main IntelMac running Manager and Server has 2 screens showing a frozen screensaver so I can't get onto it. The other, an iMac running Server only is fine and when I launch mxcl there I can see that they are both rendering happily. I'm also able to mount the frozen IntelMac and access any files on it, so it obviously hasn't crashed.

I'm wondering what I should do now to un-jam my IntelMac. Can I stop the rendering safely from the Server-only iMac and resume rendering when I've sorted the problem? I would have thought you have to manage that sort of thing from the computer running Manager.

And has anybody got general tips on how to set Energy Saver when doing a long render. My policy has been to disable Energy Saver when rendering but leave Screen Saver on to save the monitor which stoopidly doesn't have an off switch! TIA

[Bubbaloo]

Maxwell doesn't get along well with screensavers in my experience. I'm not a Mac guy, but can you stop the screensaver program in the task manager (or equivalent)?

[RichG]

Yeah, easily done.

I decided to bite the bullet and try to stop that node but it's said "Stopping" for about an hour now, I think I'll have to force a reboot of that Mac. Do you know if there's a way to retrieve the work it's done to merge into the other Mac's mxi?

Thanks

[Bubbaloo]

It would normally save the cooperative.mxi somewhere on your hard drive, but since it's having problems while stopping, it might not write it completely. Just do a search for that term.