[Ifeffit] Bug report - autosave on mac

[Zack Gainsforth]

Hi Bruce,

Yes, deleting only the autosave file is sufficient.

Zack

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On 07/15/2015 01:52 PM, Zack Gainsforth wrote:
>> If it helps, I saw this also on Artemis (OS X 10.10.3).  When I opened
>> Artermis it asked to restore from an autosave, and then hung.  This
>> continued until I deleted ~/.horae and now it is fine.
> 
> If either of you see this again, try just deleting the autosave file in ~/.horae/stash (it has "autosave in the file name) and see if that is sufficient to fix the problem.
> 
> Basically, I need a way to track down where the problem is actually happening.
> 
> Cheers,
> B
> 
>> Zack
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 5:52 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov <mailto:bravel at bnl.gov>
>>> <mailto:bravel at bnl.gov <mailto:bravel at bnl.gov>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jean-Baptiste,
>>> 
>>> I still don't have a clear idea what the problem is, but I gave it
>>> some thought yesterday while sitting on a train.
>>> 
>>> I would suggest simply deleting the $HOME/.horae directory and letting
>>> Athena start from scratch.  You'll lose your list of recently accessed
>>> files and any modifications to the configuration you may have made.
>>> But I can think of at least one recent situation where Athena got
>>> confused by a corrupted file in that folder.  Maybe that's the
>>> problem....?
>>> 
>>> B
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/09/2014 04:46 AM, Jean-Baptiste ABBE wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> 
>>>> I wanted to report a really annoying problem for mac users. I’m running
>>>> Athena on my laptop, on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) with macports. I had to
>>>> install also quartzX11 to be able to plot data (without it, it couldn’t
>>>> find the DISPLAY value), but otherwise evrything went smoothly for a few
>>>> days.
>>>> Then the first bug occured. I wasn’t able anymore to select any point on
>>>> the plotting area to do normalization, I had to set the value in the
>>>> boxes instead. It was annoying, but I could manage that. But now I have
>>>> a much more disturbing issue.
>>>> Athena once crashed, (in the terminal, it was sait « Terminated 15 »),
>>>> and every time I tried to launch it again, the same thing happens :
>>>> 1) athena launch, a little bit longer than usual
>>>> 2) a box appear to give me choice to recover data by importing it from
>>>> autosave or not
>>>> 3) I can’t select anaything and the rainbow wheel of death appears.
>>>> After a few hours, nothing changes… and I have to terminate the programm
>>>> manually.
>>>> 
>>>> So I do some search on the internet and found thoses topics on the
>>>> mailing list, and I tried thoses solutions :
>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04539.html
>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit%40millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04514.html
>>>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04514.html>
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to find the autosave file : nothing
>>>> I tried to uninstall and reinstall macports : nothing
>>>> I tried to uninstall macports and install the demeter-devel : nothing
>>>> In demeter-devel, i tried to modify the athena.demeter_config file, by
>>>> changing the autosave prompt box value from true to false, and despite
>>>> being admin on ma mac, I’m not able to change antything in the file. So
>>>> nothing works at this moment.
>>>> 
>>>> I will try again other solutions, but I will gladly accept any kind of
>>>> help to solve my issues.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you
>>>> 
>>>> ABBE J-Baptiste
>>>> 
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