Hello everyone,

I made the mistake of opening a very large movie file with PD, for the next 5 minutes, all I could do was watch as PD displayed error messages.

You mean you opened a Quicktime file as a patch? I've done this before and it's never a good thing.

Short of having to be responsible for my own actions, is there a was to get PD to abort the opening of a file up the first error it encounters? Or after a certain limit of errors? Does PD make any attempt at trying to recognize file (data) types?

Pd likes to open just about any file on OSX. I don't recall ever making the movie mistake on Windows or Linux, so I can't say if it does any file type checking on those platforms or not.

I only ask this because it seemed to lock up my whole system, and short of rebooting, patience did finally pay off...

I usually manage to ctrl-c the pd process before it eats the CPU opening the file. I have noticed that the audio glitch 'fix' can make the GUI grind to a halt now, so the combination of opening the 1GB file and in a high priority thread could be even worse. Maybe someone needs to double check that pthread code...

cgc

Thanks,

Mike

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