[Ifeffit] Athena Crashing on Mac

[Matt Newville]

Hi Daniel,

Removing any of the stash and autosave files and folders from the ".horae"
folder in your home directory should also work.



On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Austin Sheffield Uni <
daaustin1 at sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I emailed relatively recently about Artemis crashing on my MacBook Pro.
> This is the email i sent:
>
> 'I was using Artemis on Mac and it crashed. Now when i try to reopen
> Artemis it attempts restore what i was doing from an autosave file but it
> becomes unresponsive and is just stuck on the screen posted below. Does
> anyone know how i can fix it? Do i have to uninstall and then reinstall the
> software? i have left it running for over an hour but it still hasn’t
> worked.
>
> Thanks for any help’
>
> Now the exact same thing is occurring with Athena. One of the replies from
> the previous email instructed me to remove parts of the programme code. I
> did so an Artemis worked perfectly after, i just needed to save often. The
> full email that instructed me on this can be found below:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I had a similar issue, but my solution hasn’t been put up yet on the list:
>
> With respect to the error that Katherine Davies reported (02/16/2016; RE:
> [Ifeffit] problem with Artemis crashing on mac), I came across the same
> problem when running Artemis on Mac. I believe this issue is caused by a
> piece of code found in “artemis.pm” (Demeter/UI/artemis.pm) line 512-521:
>
> 512         sub process_argv {
> 513          my ($app, @args) = @_;
> 514             if (Demeter->co->default("artemis", "autosave") and
> autosave_exists()) {
> 515               import_autosave();
> 516         } elsif ($args[0]) { # and -e $args[0]) {
> 517            my $file = File::Spec->rel2abs( $args[0] );
> 518            read_project(\%frames, $file) if Demeter->is_zipproj($file,
> 0, 'fpj');
> 519             };
> 520         };
>
> I think the error is due to not shutting down the program correctly
> causing this code to fail. A fix is to comment out lines 514-516 & 519,
> save the file and reboot Artemis (to edit artemis.pm you will need to
> make the file writable)– thus getting you past startup and allowing you to
> turn off the autosave settings from within Artemis as suggested. Put the
> code back as it was after you have finished. Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
>
> Luke Higgins
>
> I tried searching for similar code in the Athena programme but couldn’t
> find it. Does anyone have a similar solution, or any solution, to this
> problem?
>
> Thank you so much
>
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