[Ernest Chan]

I just tried your steps and the library still got corrupted.

-Open Properties dialog
-Moved some images to an unused folder. A used folder already existed with some images in there.
-Closed Properties dialog
-Switched to one of the ProEmitters, dragged it around, played with it, etc.
-Closed out of PI
-Relaunched PI
-Swithed to the library I’m trying to clean up (it opened properly)
-Deleted the unused folder
-Closed Properties dialog
-Switched to one of the ProEmitters, dragged it around, played with it, etc.
-Closed out of PI
-Relaunched PI
-Switched to the library I’m tring to clean up and now it says “Unexpected argument” and wants to crash
-Force quit PI
-Relaunch PI
-It tries to open the library that’s corrupt and gives me the C++ error

[Ernest Chan]

In the process of clearing out the unused images I’m finding that the emitter library will sometimes get corrupted. Which is frustrating because there are a lot of images to clear out making us have to start over.

What I’m doing is making a folder called used and unused. I put the used images into the used folder and the unused ones into the unused ones. Then after awhile I delete the unused folder, wait for PI to rewrite the emitter library, close PI and relaunch it. If it relaunches then great. When it doesn’t I get the “Realtime runtime C++ error”.

I’ve modified the work flow so that every time I leave off with a good library that reopens I copy it. So if it get corrupted when I save out the updated one I just delete the corrupted one and restore the most recent copy.

What would cause PI to corrupt a library? I have a window up with the libraries so I’m watching the file size changes as it writes to it so it’s not like I’m closing PI too early.

[Ernest Chan]

So clearing out the unused image maps is working.

It would be nice if there was a “Clear all unused” button.

Our work around cheat is to make a new folder and then drag the unused ones into that folder and then delete that folder. It’s nice that before it deletes the folder it’ll give you a warning dialog that says if they’re being used in an emitter.

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[Ernest Chan]

I just looked into the search function. That is pretty cool.

We’ll work on cleaning up our libraries.

Thx!

[Ernest Chan]

Ah thanks David but we don’t use Motion or Final Cut on my end.

But this is good to know.

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[Ernest Chan]

Will do Alan.

Thanks!

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[Ernest Chan]

Thanks Alan,

Are there plans for this feature in updates or future versions? We use PI a lot. We can get what we want out of LW but the fast feedback in PI has us spoiled. We have access to Particular for AE as well but it can’t do this setup either.

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