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

[Phil Davis]

Thanks David. Ah yes... I'm finding some of these as I Google "memory 
scraping tools".

Phil


On 9/29/14 12:32 PM, David Simpson wrote:
> 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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