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mcQ's icon

alot of the time in max 5 when i accidentally create a stack overflow it crashes/closes and i have to restart max entirely.
so what happens if i accidentally have a loadbang do that on startup, or if i have too many loadbangs starting too many things that causes max to crash whenever i open a patch.
is there some option around this or would my patch be eternally doomed every time i start it up.

Tim Lloyd's icon

"Holding down the Shift and Command keys on Macintosh or Shift and Control keys on Windows while a patch is loading prevents loadbang objects in that patch from sending any output." (from the loadbang reference file)

This has helped me out a few times as well! Af course, also be constantly learning why the stack overflows happen and making sure you don't cause them in the first place.

bkshepard's icon

Holding down Command-Shift (Mac) or Control-Shift (Windows) as the patch is loading will defeat the loadbangs.