I have also experienced multiple crashes. It never happened before I switched 
to V6. I'm using Mac OS 10.6.8. The crashes have happened while putting data 
into a field from a script in a different stack. Another time LiveCode crashed 
while I was saving the stack. I have also experienced the strange characters 
that Timothy reported.

I have no idea whet unicode characters are, so I don't know if they are being 
used. Luckily, I too have backed up regularly so the problem is annoying, but 
not catastrophic. I hope this is addressed soon.

Joe in Orlando


________________________________
 From: Timothy Miller <gand...@doctortimothymiller.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 2:27 AM
Subject: multiple crashes with OS 10.8.4 and 6.0.2 community
 

I've experienced half a dozen crashes in the past hour or two with the same 
stack. I haven't yet had a chance to investigate the possibility of similar 
problems on other stacks.

It's a very simple and ordinary stack, except that it has about 1600 cards. I 
store a lot of text in this stack.  Most of the text is in one field, spread 
out over the 1600 cards. About a million words of text altogether.

This stack has been very well-behaved for several years. I have made no changes 
to it recently, except to add a few more cards and some more text.

It's crashed three times in the past hour. The kind of crash that seems to 
happen instantly. The application quits and the OS generates a crash report to 
send to Apple. If other applications are open, they are not affected.

In addition, in the past hour, on two or three other occasions, when simply 
entering text, or cutting and pasting text, in the same field, on the same 
card, strange characters started showing up in place of text. In some cases, a 
crash came next. In other cases, I was able to erase the strange characters and 
continue entering text.

Sometimes the crash came when I was entering text. In other cases, just 
scrolling through the stack with go next and go prev, with a simple visual 
effect.

I used this stack last night and this morning, at length, also with LC 6.0.2 
Community. No problems then.

The machine, a late 2009 MacBook with 8 GB RAM, is otherwise working normally.

This stack is very important to me. Data loss or corruption would be very, very 
bad. (Of course I am backed up.)

Any thoughts? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Tim


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