MCS is Crashing

[HenrikOlsson]

Don't worry about the error message, it's been posted before but the developler doesn't seem to care all that much since he's never seen it happen and "we" can't provide a way to reproduce it at will. It's all a big mess and nothing seems to get done.

I've never thought it might have something to do with the save path or auto save or anyting like that. Lately I've been leaning towards the serial terminal beeing tha culprit but I don't know. Did you happen to have the serial terminal running when it crashed for you?

/Henrik.

[fowardbias]

No serial port was in use during programming writing. I would usually code a page and run test compile, and if good, add more lines. Sometimes I didn't use the thumb drive or any other connections to the laptop and it would still drop out. Hope this helps. So for the time being, no fix available and I'll manually backup.

[picster]

cross-thread posting, I have two Dell laptops (one I5, one I7) with W7x64 running. BOTH experience this problem. Sure would be nice to have a fix. Usually seems to happen while typing rem comments in - anyone else see this trend, or is it just me?

[HenrikOlsson]

Can't say I can relate to that. Have been coding on/off for short periods, 20 minutes here, 2 hours there during the last week, writing a lot of comments, and haven't had a single crash. Same file(s) as I've been working on Before, on the same machine etc etc but not a single crash now while it can crash 5 times in 10 minutes on a moody day.

/Henrik.

[picster]

Yeah I've seen that frustrating lack of consistency. Next time it crashes, see if you can make a mental note of WHAT you were typing. EVERY crash I have had occurs during typing, despite the fact that I can easily leave the program up and running for a day or two between sittings.

[mark_s]

I never had any problems with crashing, until recently. I followed Henrik's posts in the past, regarding this issue, but had nothing to add.

Last month it crashed on my work bench laptop. After rebooting the pc it seemed ok and no more crashes. It's a gateway 486 running the last version of XP. This pc is never connected to the net and been stable, running PBP2.6 and 3 for at least 5 years.

A few days ago, I plugged my usb flash drive into the laptop and opened a pbp file in MCS. I compiled the file without problem. Then I saved the file to my MSCX folder. I started to modify a line, and got the error message. After rebooting it would not allow me to modify that file without crashing.

Now days later, I can open the file from the MSCX folder without any crashing.

For me it seems to be a path problem as Forwardbias stated above. Both times that I had problems it was while using a flash drive.

One thing my case indicates is that it has nothing to do with which version of Windows you are running. Same problem on XP, 7 and 10

[picster]

NO crashes so far since I changed the default settings for comments to NON italics. All my crashes were during typing documentation remarks, and I figure it was processing them on the fly and changing the font with every keystroke... since I changed it to only change the COLOR (but not the font characteristic to italics), I have NOT experienced a crash.

I would appreciate if others could try this and continue to test concurrently with me.