magically dissappearing

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magically dissappearing

Posted by Nicholas Toth on October 23, 2006 at 3:37 pm

WTF!

So of course, I’m constantly juggling between photoshop/ms word/afx/c4d on my machine via apple tab command. If not that, I’m hiding programs via apple H.
FOR SOME REASON, afx decides to hide and not come back, Usually at very important times. If I click on the dock, or apple tab back to the AFX icon, nothing happens. The only way out is to force quit the program. I’m running v7 and os10.4.7, (not 10.4.8…) and I know other people this happens to. I really don’t care if it dissappears, but it would be great if there was some ghetto way to get it to appear again — and it always happens at important times.

STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

Christopher R. green replied 19 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Mylenium
October 23, 2006 at 5:08 pm

That’s a known bug and there’s currently no solution. Yeah, it sucks, but you have to live with it for the time being.

Mylenium

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Nicholas Toth
October 23, 2006 at 7:47 pm

Maybe I’ll just start kicking my computer…teach it a lesson!
Christopher R. green
October 23, 2006 at 8:24 pm

I don’t have v7 yet … but I wonder if you could, as a safeguard, run a script to save the project and quit the app …

I’d love to test this, but I don’t have access to v7 to work this out …

could send you a script to test, perhaps …
Straight A
October 23, 2006 at 8:51 pm

Yep! happens to me too at least once or twice a day 🙁 I now just minimize AE instead of hiding as it you can get it back this way.
Nicholas Toth
October 24, 2006 at 1:00 pm

I’m interested in that script. Will it work if we have to actually FORCE QUIT out?
Christopher R. green
October 29, 2006 at 6:01 pm

Sorry about the delay, folks.
I’ve created an applescript application that might help if you get in the ‘forever hidden after effects’ jam again.
From the app’s initial dialog:

THIS SCRIPT WILL
1: check to see if the current afx project has ever been saved (has a file associated with it)
2: if not, it will save a project called “EMERGENCYSAVE.aep” at the root of your startup drive
3: if the project has a file associated with it, it will close the project and save it first (if it has unsaved changes)
4: find After Effect’s process ID, then KILL it (this is force-quitting)
5: re-activate After Effects

it does ask before killing.

Download it here:
https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/SaveKillAfterEffects.zip

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