Not sure if this is a SS crash or if it's originating elsewhere:

When editing large sites (typically over 20 pages in length) SS will crash (somtimes & without warning) when the Mona Lisa button is clicked.

After the button is clicked the Open window appears. Sometimes the contents are displayed, and sometimes SS crashes before it gets this far. Sometimes you can get as far as selecting a picture to open and SS crashes when Open is clicked. The result is that SS just closes without warning and a window appears stating: Sitespinner has generated errors and will now close.

Once, when SS crashed in this manner, I received an error message (when using WinXP home) that stated roughly: Sitespinner was unable to write to memory... or some such. This message has only appeared once.

This bug has been evident to me when using SS on XP home and Win2000

If this Bug has not been mentioned before then it may be because I am running SS on an Apple G4 iBook (640MB, 800Mhz) running WinXP and Win2000 via Virtual PC 6... which is, by it's very nature, a RAM hungry method.

Maybe, one day, SS will run natively on Mac also...

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Have you been able to edit the same site on another computer?

To me, the symptoms sound suspiciously like a hardware (perhaps memory) malfunction. The error messages you see are generated by the OS trying to protect itself from "badly behaving" programs. Except that SiteSpinner is a "goodly behaving" program -- at least in my experience.

On the same computer, do other programs all behave themselves? How trustworthy is Virtual PC 6? If you have any diagnostic tools, memory checkers or the like, give your computer a good workout with those.

Or get a real PC. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I haven't heard of that problem before.

Occasionally with, Window ME, we hear that a displaying a specific image cases a problem. Updating the display drivers usually fixes those cases.

One thing to try is unchecking the preview option in the open image dialog.

Hey guys,

Yeah, this doesn't happen all the time. Mmm. I use SS on my Dell as well (just wanted to mention that for Bruceee) and only use SS on my iBook when I'm on the road (saves taking 2 laptops). Virtual PC 6 is rock-solid when using other programmes and is as stable as any (slower) PC running Win2k or XP (with all the eye-candy turned off) and this prob is only evident when working on expecially large sites.

For example, www.dareenterprises.com.au is one that I was working on recently and it repeatedly happened. Curiously, one fix was to go home, transfer all the files to the Dell, open them in SS and re-save then transfer them back to my iBook. Not sure why, but it sorted the bug out

I will also turn off the Preview feature that Harpo mentioned and see how I go. I'm also upgrading to VPC 7 soonish so that might help as well.

Cheers again gang!

Chris

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Oh, you have got a real PC

Theorising here: Resaving the project on your Dell makes a minor change to the ims project file (image files should remain the same). This change shifts things in memory on the iBook just enough to work around the problem. If that theory is right, the problem should resurface after a few more edits on the iBook.

I still suspect the iBook hardware, but it will be interesting to hear what VPC 7 does. An update = bug fixes.

Yeah... you're right Bruceee, the reshuffle on the Dell does fix things for a while... then they go bad again as you suggested. Weird. You're cluey with this old SiteSpinner. And you really don't get paid enough (not sure how much you do get paid... but it's surely not enough!)

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