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  V8C and 8.1 locks up when selecting project media.

  Posted by Willie Bobo on December 20, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  Hi guys,
  I was going to save a project (with media) created in V8a that I opened in 8.1 (on my new Vista 64 machine) and when selecting project media to (first delete unused media) I kept getting “not responding”.
  So I was thinking maybe it was due to the fact that the project was created on a 32 bit XP machine so I figured I’d install 8C but I got the same result.
  Any idea as to why?
  TIA,
  Randy

  Willie Bobo replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  December 21, 2008 at 2:39 am

  cache memory would be my first guess, Randy.
  Can you export the project to a portable drive and save on another machine? I’m still seeing some memory issues with 8.1. Not sure on the answer to 8c, however. Isn’t shooting ducks in the dark fun sometimes?
  BTW, did you open the same project/save same project in 8.1 that you attempted to open in 8c?

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
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  Willie Bobo

  December 21, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  Thanks very much Douglas,
  cache memory would be my first guess, Randy.

  Funny after all these years I still didn’t know exactly what cache memory is until I just went and googled it. That said, this is a new system, can there be a physical problem with my cache memory or are you thinking I configured something wrong (may be possible since I did a few of the Vista tweaks floating around out there)

  Can you export the project to a portable drive and save on another machine? I’m still seeing some memory issues with 8.1. Not sure on the answer to 8c, however.

  I wound up re-starting the PC, opening up V8c, selecting the project media folder, and then opening the project to delete the unused media….it all went swimmingly : ) So maybe clearing the cache did the trick?

  Isn’t shooting ducks in the dark fun sometimes?

  ummmm….no sir…especially when one doesn’t have much ammunition to shoot with : (

  BTW, did you open the same project/save same project in 8.1 that you attempted to open in 8c?

  No sir, I did have enough sense to open the original (created in V8a on an external drive).

  I am having an issue with this new PC (Windows can’t check for updates for some reason) that I’m in the middle of resolving via email correspondence with MS. Hopefully I won’t wind up having to reformat to fix my “tweaks”.
  Anyway, I’m learning….hey, I know what cache memory is now!

  Thanks again very much Douglas,
  Randy
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  Willie Bobo

  December 22, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  I reformatted the C drive and everything is now hunkey-dorey…thanks again Douglas!
  Randy

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