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8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:00 am
by greg4b
Hello,
I'm on 8.1 RC and I've crashed my set-up during gantt-editing.
Action: I've done a fresh install - fine. With the old ini file it does not get started anymore...
Question: How to provide the ini file for root cause detection?
Thanks,
Greg
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:40 am
by abstr
Hi Greg
If you open the About dialog (Help > About) it'll show you where the ini file is located.
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 3:43 pm
by greg4b
Thanks abstr,
I've checked and somewhat tried to remove personal / senstive information...
Since my ini has more than 200.000 lines maybe you could see for root cause.
I'd like to send you the file by PN or email.
Thanks,
Greg
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:12 pm
by abstr
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I've checked and somewhat tried to remove personal / senstive information...
Before you send it, can you verify that the modified ini file still produces the hang on your system please?
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:04 pm
by greg4b
yes, still hanging - sent you file by mail.
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:25 pm
by abstr
Thx for that Gregor.
It seems that a bug in the 'Gantt Chart' causes the software to think there are 95727 columns (though I suspect it's probably been growing for some time)!
Try this:
1. Close TDL
2. Take a backup of your ini file
3. Open the original in a text editor
4. Find and delete the following two sections
Code: Select all
[FileStates\Generic.xml\UIExtensions\83F6CBD3-5F3C-4567-9BA8-9544B899F949\ListTracked]
Count=95727
...
[FileStates\Generic.xml\UIExtensions\83F6CBD3-5F3C-4567-9BA8-9544B899F949\ListWidths]
Count=95727
...
5. Save the ini
6. Restart TDL
7. Monitor the situation and let me know when the column size grows beyond 1000 and we'll talk some more
In the meantime I will look at the code and see if I can work out where this is occurring.
ps. Interesting that the problem only occurs on the Generic.xml tasklist even though you use the Gantt Chart for all your tasklists. Perhaps you could have a think about whether you use the software differently for that tasklist...
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:43 am
by greg4b
abstr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:25 pm
. Perhaps you could have a think about whether you use the software differently for that tasklist...
I use the gantt in every todo list - because this shows for me perfectly the dependency and duration - even with hours granularity.
Hope this is no "abuse" usage
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:25 am
by abstr
Did my suggestion fix the problem?
Re: 8.1 RC - hangs on startup
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2022 7:33 am
by greg4b
yes, the deletion of the two sections lead to normal loading of the app.
Thanks,
Greg