getting data from the memory space of a "hung" app

[David Simpson]

Phil,
You would probably have to prepare in advance for a situation like this, and use arrayEncode to create a binary form of the array and save it to disk. Maybe you would do this as certain intervals in preparation for a possible crash.

Otherwise, there are debugging/hacking tools which can scrape info out of memory to perform these kinds of tasks.


David Simpson
www.fmpromigrator.com



On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Are you aware of any way to save the in-memory data of a standalone app that's currently not responding? This is on a Mac, probably OS 10.8.x or maybe 10.9.x. Right-clicking the app's icon in the Dock gives you the "force quit" option. The data is in an array.
> 
> I created a stack my client can drag onto the app icon, which will [ideally] open it and save that array to disk, but I don't hold out a lot of hope that it'll open.
> 
> I realize this is an extreme long shot but I told my client I would ask.
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> -- 
> Phil Davis
> 
> 
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