- Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:41 pm
#370551
Here's a problem I've had for years but never really needed it fixed before today, curious if I'm alone in this. Basically, if I try anything under the File menu, Maxwell crashes! It's a pretty major bug of course but as a rule, I build my scene, render and Maxwell automatically saves the image and all's fine. Today I decided to resume rendering of an MXI for the first time ever in my use of Maxwell but any of the Open/Merge/Resume commands will briefly show a finder dialogue before quitting unexpectedly. If I have a render in progress that has been saving happily at each sample level and I want to save as another file type, that instantly quits without even the finder window appearing. I also tried MXI Batch Processing as a test. That opens the batch processing dialogue but when I click the button to set input folder that briefly shows a finder dialogue before quitting unexpectedly too.
I work at quite high resolutions and I've put it down to that in the past but this crash happens with no image open. I tried doing a save as on a tiny 800x600 render that was sat at the top level of my hard drive (in case of any dodgy file paths that I know Maxwell has been sensitive to in the past) and that crashes too.
This happens on 2 Mac Pros and one new iMac, all with 20-30Gb ram and all running OSX 10.7.5. I've also just tried downloading a new vanilla copy of Maxwell in case any of my small additions like Preview scenes have caused problems but it's exactly the same. And as I say, this has been a problem I've had from day one of using Maxwell. I can't imagine it's a widespread problem as I can't find anything in the forums but I'd love to hear there's a simple solution.
I work at quite high resolutions and I've put it down to that in the past but this crash happens with no image open. I tried doing a save as on a tiny 800x600 render that was sat at the top level of my hard drive (in case of any dodgy file paths that I know Maxwell has been sensitive to in the past) and that crashes too.
This happens on 2 Mac Pros and one new iMac, all with 20-30Gb ram and all running OSX 10.7.5. I've also just tried downloading a new vanilla copy of Maxwell in case any of my small additions like Preview scenes have caused problems but it's exactly the same. And as I say, this has been a problem I've had from day one of using Maxwell. I can't imagine it's a widespread problem as I can't find anything in the forums but I'd love to hear there's a simple solution.