Michael Dessen

I have a patch that crashes each time I open it, after a second or so of displaying it properly (but not responding to mouse clicks at all, i.e. frozen for a couple seconds then crashes the program). Other patches work fine. If I open the corrupt patch using "open as text" and paste it into a new patcher window, it works fine. But if I then save that file as a regular max patcher and re-open it as a max patch (not using "open as text" but simply "open..."), it crashes again just as before. I tried taking some things out and simplifying it but it's still happening.

I tried pasting it into this message but the text is too long so it got cut off, and I don't see a way to attach it.

I just installed the latest version of 5.1.3 and it didn't solve the problem.

Any suggestions? It is just a big patch sending out midi information, with some use of matrixctl and autopattr. No msp objects.

crash-corrupt-file

Try disabling [loadbang]s when you open the file with command + shift. It seems the problem is being triggered by one when the patch first loads. If you need help finding which bit is being tricky you can post the patch using "Copy Compressed from the edit menu.

Thanks for that tip! You were right, and that helped me find the problem.

crash / corrupt file?