I'm experiencing a lot of weird crashes in Max 8: it simply crashes (completely quits) for no apparent reason at all. I've had this an awful lot: so much so that I can't trust it to perform with (I just revert to Max 7). I've not spotted any pattern to the crashes either, so I can't repeat them for diagnostic purposes, and there are no warnings, no error messages - nothing! Max 8 simply disappears abruptly. I can't even spot anything consistent: it's happened while patching, while consulting the Reference materials, while a patch is just sitting there (apparently) completely idle. It happens on two different computers: both MacBook Pros, but different generations/screensizes/CPU etc. I'm using Max 8.0.2 on MacOS 10.13.6.

After a crash, it's always able to rescue my work, so I haven't lost anything yet and it looks like it crashes in a reasonably orderly way... but that's not much consolation if I'm thinking of performing with it :-)

I've had a quick look in the forums and not found others posting a similar experience, but has anyone else experienced this?

I'm experiencing a lot of weird crashes in Max 8: it simply crashes (completely quits) for no apparent reason at all. I've had this an awful lot: so much so that I can't trust it to perform with (I just revert to Max 7). I've not spotted any pattern to the crashes either, so I can't repeat them for diagnostic purposes, and there are no warnings, no error messages - nothing! Max 8 simply disappears abruptly. I can't even spot anything consistent: it's happened while patching, while consulting the Reference materials, while a patch is just sitting there (apparently) completely idle. It happens on two different computers: both MacBook Pros, but different generations/screensizes/CPU etc.  I'm using Max 8.0.2 on MacOS 10.13.6.

Hi all,
I'm experiencing a lot of weird crashes in Max 8: it simply crashes (completely quits) for no apparent reason at all. I've had this 

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Oh, and I forgot to mention: Max 8 also sometimes decides to ignore mouse clicks and keyboard input. For instance, I might've edited something in the inspector, and will then be unable to return to the main patch by clicking on it. I might suddenly lose the ability to lock/unlock a patch using the keyboard shortcuts. More often than not, I can 'wake it up' again by clicking on the padlock icon in the bottom right corner, but sometimes I just have to quit Max and restart it. I've never had this problem with Max 7.

Possibly related, but honestly the whole thing makes very little sense to me!

Max 8 - sudden crashes for no apparent reason