davidestevens

Recently, all three of my main working patches exhibit the following behaviour in Max7 (latest Max, latest OSX, Retina macbook pro) ...

With a Project open, either closing the main project patcher window by clicking on the red close button, or quitting Max (which firstly closes the main patcher, so probably the same problem), I get the rotating colour wheel and Max becomes unresponsive, requiring a force quit.

I often want to just close the patcher window, but leave the Project file window open, so that I can work on a subpatcher file without having the main patch open, or to copy a patcher from one project directly to another, but I can't do this any more because of this problem. Plus it's a PITA when I want to close Max after working.

I tried deleting the maxpreferences file, that didn't help. I tried reinstalling Max, which (I think (it's been a confusing week)) helped for a short time, but now the issue is back.

I can't really post the patches as they are huge, so what I'd like is some pointers as to where I could look for whatever might be causing this. So the question is -

Are there some specific processes that Max goes through when closing a patcher window that might cause a hang?

With a Project open, either closing the main project patcher window by clicking on the red close button, or quitting Max (which firstly closes the main patcher, so probably the same problem), I get the rotating colour wheel and Max becomes unresponsive, requiring a force quit.
I often want to just close the patcher window, but leave the Project file window open, so that I can work on a subpatcher file without  having the main patch open, or to copy a patcher from one project directly to another, but I can't do this any more because of this problem. Plus it's a PITA when I want to close Max after working.

I tried deleting the maxpreferences file, that didn't help. I tried reinstalling Max, which (I think (it's been a confusing week)) helped for a short time, but now the issue is back.
I can't really post the patches as they are huge, so what I'd like is some pointers as to where I could look for whatever might be causing this. So the question is -
Are there some specific processes that Max goes through when closing a patcher window that might cause a hang?

Amorphous bug? What happens during patch closing?