kcoul

I am curious what kind of elements within a patch can make it unopenable after saving it, causing the patch to crash MAX every time it is loaded thereafter (therefore losing all of the work done in that patch).

I realize now that one precaution might be to save a patch under a new name after making major changes, but I had no idea this would happen with the patch in question, as I was just laying out a variety of database objects and they were mostly disconnected from each other.

If there are known elements that can cause a patch to become unloadable, I would be very happy to know what they might be.

why-do-some-patches-crash-max

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

> I am curious what kind of elements within a patch can make it unopenable after saving it, causing the patch to crash MAX every time it is loaded thereafter (therefore losing all of the work done in that patch).

> I realize now that one precaution might be to save a patch under a new name after making major changes, but I had no idea this would happen with the patch in question, as I was just laying out a variety of database objects and they were mostly disconnected from each other.

> If there are known elements that can cause a patch to become unloadable, I would be very happy to know what they might be.

This kind of reminds me of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

Kieran Coulter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am curious what kind of elements within a patch can make it unopenable after saving it, causing the patch to crash MAX every time it is loaded thereafter (therefore losing all of the work done in that patch).
>
> I realize now that one precaution might be to save a patch under a new name after making major changes, but I had no idea this would happen with the patch in question, as I was just laying out a variety of database objects and they were mostly disconnected from each other.
>
> If there are known elements that can cause a patch to become unloadable, I would be very happy to know what they might be.
>
> Thanks,
>
> kcoul
>
>


A major culprit is loadbang. Load you patch while holding shift+cmd/ctl. Maybe it opens then?

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> If there are known elements that can cause a patch to become unloadable, I would be very happy to know what they might be.
>

A major culprit is loadbang. Load you patch while holding shift+cmd/ctl.  Maybe it opens then?

why do some patches crash max?