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Per I'm a bad boy then as I've not really been doing that.. Just did it now but I'm not sure how it would impact UI config for möbius :) Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 8, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maybe you have not been repairing file permissions regularly? > Recommended procedure every time anything has been installed on a Mac. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.perboysen.com > http://www.youtube.com/perboysen > > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Philip Clevenger > <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey Mobius people - and maybe Jeff? >> >> Last night I found myself in a nasty crash cycle with Mobius VST and >> Ableton >> that was literally three hours of hair-pulling nightmare. >> >> It began when Ableton crashed hard due to what I think was a failure of >> my >> MOTU Traveler’s MIDI system. Bah. Need to upgrade that thing anyway. >> >> After that - When I relaunched Ableton, Mobius’ interface was just >> gone. I >> got the Mobius window, with some installed buttons, but all else was >> gone. >> >> Trying to reconfigure the UI from scratch was brittle and nasty - each >> time >> I added something to the UI and exited the dialog, Mobius would crash >> and >> take Ableton down with it. This happened again and again, though each >> time I >> relaunched, Mobius would seem to retain my changes - so I made some >> progress >> in fits and starts this way… until I came to the specifics of the >> Components >> UI - the Loop Window item was simply not there! I knew it was there >> before >> because I am a heavy user, have many switches pointing to it, and was >> just >> placing it onscreen minutes before. Further, I tried to access the >> Buttons >> config dialog to check for the Windowing item (it was there!) and when >> exiting that, I got another crash. Then after relaunching, when I open >> Mobius, all my hard-won progress was blown away again. Just gone. >> >> Next I did a series of clean reinstalls and experienced more of the same >> behaviors. Many times during all of this, Ableton would crash at >> relaunch >> too. >> >> Then - I started working with the standalone - and found the Windowing >> option was indeed present there… and that sometimes, changes I made in >> standalone would propagate back to the VST. Though, not predictably, >> and not >> always. And I found the standalone to be crashy as hell too. >> >> SOMEHOW… over time… the missing Windowing feature *reappeared* in the >> VST… >> and somehow over time, the VST UI update behavior became less brittle, >> and >> somehow over time, I think I have arrived back at fully configured UI >> and no >> more need to change it and no more crashy behavior. >> >> But given the extremity of the situation, I’d like to understand what >> actually happened… and given that it seems to have been massaged back >> into >> place, I wonder if there is some Special Knowledge I might be lacking >> that >> might have either enabled me to avoid the problem altogether or to more >> rapidly, efficiently, and purposefully, resolve it. >> >> Anybody? >> >> Phil :) >