Show Cue System

I have just for the first time encountered a problem mentioned by Bruce in February. Whilst doing final level adjustments and start and stop points to successive cues in the Editor for a show, SCS reached a state where the "Save" button remained greyed out, and nothing I did would revive it, even adding an unnecessary cue. I was offered "Save As" so, not wishing to lose the edits hours before the performance, I saved the file under a different name. As Bruce found, closing SCS and restarting it resolved the problem, but resulted in a crash dialog from Windows XP SP2.

Reopening the file and comparing it closely with the "Save As" file, I found that every one of the edits had been recorded. It's as if SCS had put itself into recovery mode, saving changes internally but not allowing me to manually initiate a save.

If the cue file content is relevant I can send it; it happens to start and finish with the same playlist.

Malcolm

jmgordon wrote:Reopening the file and comparing it closely with the "Save As" file, I found that every one of the edits had been recorded. It's as if SCS had put itself into recovery mode, saving changes internally but not allowing me to manually initiate a save.

That does seem odd. So if you had moved, say, a level slider from -3dB to -12dB then that change would have been automatically saved? If so then that may be a clue. I'll have a look at the recovery file handling.

Well, I think the answer is Yes, although I haven't quite been able to repeat the effect. However, working on a test copy of the same file, I went through a lot of level changes and trims, without provoking the greying out of "Save" (which I had not touched). Nevertheless when I exited SCS it crashed. I inspected the dump file, but have not found a way to copy it. I am emailing the txt file that I could access.

Malcolm

Well, I can't see how saving the recovery file can force saving the cue file - the controlling save functions are quite separate and the recovery file is saved to the Windows user's temp folder. I'm going to make a change for the next release to save the current date and time to the cue file. This could be used to confirm when the file was last written.