Clues to Need to Reinstall on OX X?

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 26 Jun 2004, at 4:10 am, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I've been using Rev on OS X for a long time. I haven't yet upgraded to 
> 2.2.1 but I've been running 2.2 since its release. For the most part, 
> my experience has been fairly trouble-free.
>
> But in the past two weeks as I work on a more complex project than my 
> previous ones, I'm finding that Rev absolutely freezes on launch and I 
> ultimately have to re-install it. That's happened three times this 
> week and twice last week. This seems excessive to me.
>
> As a rule, it seems the launch process hangs at the point when Rev is 
> loading menus and plugins. I've tried selective removal and 
> re-insertion of various plug-ins without gaining any useful knowledge.
>
> Needless to say, this has me pausing and wondering about the overall 
> stability of the environment under moderate stress. I know I've read 
> other messages here from time to time on the subject. What is your 
> recent experience? Is this an anomaly I should try to track down to a 
> specific combo of plugins and/or menu stuff? Or is this something I 
> just have to learn to live with?
>
Hi Dan,

This is a problem that quite a few of us have encountered with certain 
projects and although I am not sure exactly what causes it (and 
therefore what to avoid), Jim Hurley posted the quickest & easiest 
solution a few weeks ago, which I quote here:

> If the launch hangs at the "Loading Plug-ins" stage you might suspect 
> that it is that component which is at fault. But it turns out that it 
> is the next component which causes the problem. Try replacing just the 
> "Saves" folder inside the "Components" folder.

Cheers,
Sarah