Out of memory exception

[Paul]

Hi Alain
I am merging 11 weeks of SE presentations into ONE slideshow – but am getting “Exception of type”system.Out of Memory exception” was thrown.

Overall size would be 379mb and total slides 373.
SE ver 1.9.5

Any Ideas?

Paul

[alain]

Well, should be a memory issue (yes I am very smart 🙂 )

More seriously, when does this error occur?
– during the merge operation?
– just after the merge, when refreshing thumbnails?
– later?

If possible, please send the report to our server when asked, it would help me a lot to understand where I use too much memory.

[Paul]

Thank you Alain

Have built the Project in 2 Parts and the error occurs when I try to merge the second part with the first- I would say about 20% into the merge- and then seams to reverse the merge to leave me with Part one only.

Which report and what server?

paul

[alain]

Usually when you have an “unexpected” error like this, Slide Effect displays a popup with a red cross, displaying the error with two buttons on the bottom: one to close the error report and the other to send the error to us.

If you have this kind of dialog, please press “send a report”.

Anyway, I’ll investigate this issue tomorrow morning (it is the evening here). I’ll keep you informed.

[alain]

Hi Paul,

I investigated your issue this morning.

I found a problem with the “undo manager”: when merging presentations, Slide Effect was storing each operation in the undo manager (as if you were doing this manually). This operation takes memory and time: I corrected this problem.

Please try the new 1.9.7 beta2 (available on “Product Updates” section of the site). Merge presentations should now use a lot less memory and works also faster.

Keep me informed of the result. If it works flawlessly I’ll release officially 1.9.7 soon.

[Paul]

Many Thanks Alain

That goes a long way to curing the problem…
But as i progressed through the presentation I could see the “reaction time” of my edits getting progressively longer….
so constant saves and SE shutdown and restarts needed to prevent crashing….But project now complete..

Many thanks again.

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