Freeze on Import

I'm using the latest alpha version (4.5.18a) of the enterprise software, and Screen-scraper seems to complete freeze everytime a scraping session is imported. Usually it successfully imports, but then you can't click on anything.

Reproduce?

Hey Chris,

I'm not able to reproduce that. I infer that you're using the workbench. What OS are you on? Are you importing to a folder, or using the "file > import"? Does it act differently if you try to import different sessions/scripts?

Reproducing

I've actually been having a similar, but more sporadic problem with the "Save" function for quite a while now. Then, when I upgraded and got the freeze on import, I though it was more consistent and I could have something solid to report. Turns out it's not consistent, either. Basically, after a while of using screen-scraper, I completely freeze when trying to Save (or now, after Importing from the menu). Oh, and the Save and Import work fine; once I come back the command has completed.

Once the workbench starts freezing, it freezes very consistently, even when I restart it. The only way I can get it to stop (for a while) is by restarting the "screen-scraper server" Windows Service. I'm running on Vista, and it doesn't seem to matter which file I'm saving or importing, although it feels as though it happens more often when I have a lot of scrapes loaded in the workbench. It also seems to happen when I've had the workbench open for a longer period of time. The only other difference in my setup is that I load in a java library I created, in the "ext" folder, which creates some RemoteScrapingSessions. I would test it without the library, but I really need it :)

I'm sorry; I know these bugs are super frustrating, which is why I was trying to wait till I had something more consistent. If there is some way I can turn on logging or output something when the crash happens, I am more than happy to. The freezing doesn't happen often enough to be unusable. And, I'm fairly certain it doesn't happen on the 4.5 stable release, just the alphas.

Are you running the sever and

Are you running the sever and the workbench simultaneously? I've had some strange problems when I do that in Windows too ... the best solution I have for that is to have 2 instances of screen-scraper, and to run the server on the second (in Windows, the service refers to the newest install of screen-scraper).

If you are running both, can you test with just one or the other on to see if you get the same problems?