xp "sleep mode" + filter editor = lost work (deletes filters!)

I have found out the hard way not to leave filterforge running overnight if your pc is set to go into sleep mode after a certain timeout... if you have a filter open in the editor when your pc goes to sleep, when you come back the next day things are bad.

It will appear at first as if nothing is wrong, and I see that my filter is marked as "unsaved" so I think "oh no, quickly I must save, or else I'll lose everything!" But trying to save a filter after coming back from overnight sleep mode causes a crash "unable to create record." Fine, I lost my unsaved changes, whatever I could deal with that.

BUT!

It's not just unsaved changes getting lost! The entire filter is corrupted! The file is replaced with a 0KB empty garbage file!

This has happened twice now, so I have learned my lesson for sure (the first time I thought it was maybe just a fluke). But since it has happened again, I figured I should report the bug/warn others...

rgoer,

FF has an unfortunate "Resource Leak" bug/problem. (It's been often mentioned in this forum.) Until it gets fixed, some rules of thumb (that I use) are:

1. Continually back up filters you're working on. (E.g. I'll often "save as" one filter under two different names.)
2. Don't have FF open for too long at a time. That is, it seems the longer it is open, the greater the chance there will be a crash. (E.g. After using FF for a while, I'll save or cancel things, close it down, then re-open it (where I'm generally using FF as a PS plugin). Yeah, it sounds sort of "ghetto", but it seems to work (vs. where before when I was often running into the 0 KB crash problem).)

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jffe wrote: I highly and not so politely recommend they pull the mac version off the high priority list, and fix what little they have before word of mouth gets around and scares away those few mac sales they might've gotten if it worked stable to begin with on pcs.

i tend to agree. nothing is more frustrating than a software program that doesnt work right and loses all your work for you because of a crash or lock-up. i mean, unless you're pretending to be microsoft or something; then we'd expect it