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From: Alastair Duncan on 13 Apr 2008 08:21
I have been using Director since version 7 or earlier and never had any
significant problems. Now I am finding both Director 10 and 11 are crashing
repeatedly - it's driving me insane I have checked everything I can think of
and all the recommended Adobe solutions. I am running a MacBook Pro with 2 Gigs
of RAM and plenty of free hard drive, OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Director 11. I also
have a MacMini with 2 gigs of RAM, 17 gigs of free space and system 10.4
(PowerPC rather then Intel processor). Both systems have been reinstalled and
disks checked,

I have usually produced CDs with Director set to 800 x 600 and had no
problems. The current project is animation to be output to video (768 x 576)
and also, more interactively and in small clips, as a Director movie. I have
been managing by saving after almost every move I make but still find that the
program crashes frequently on playback.

Can anybody help?

From: Mike Blaustein on 13 Apr 2008 08:34
Is it just this one dir file that crashes constantly? Or is it anything
you have open in Director? Does it crash if you make a new file and
work on it for a while?

It may be that your dir is corrupt (or there is a programming error). It
may also be that your installation of Director is bad. To distinguish,
you need to know if the problem happens in only the one file or all files.
From: Alastair Duncan on 13 Apr 2008 09:15
It happens in all files and on both systems!
From: liveoak on 13 Apr 2008 14:46
Is the project crashing when you play it inside the authoring environment? What
happens in the debugging window? If it crashes out of the degugger, have you
tried activating the trace feature in the message window?

I once had an ancient director movie (D4, I believe) get corrupted. Had to
recreate a new file using elements from the corrupted movie. Could you revert
to a backup of the dir file from before the crashing started, to test this
possibility?

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