TC 7.5PB5: Instability

[tbeu]

I used all 5 public beta versions of TC 7.5 so far both at home and at work. However, the latest beta 5 seems to be quite unstable as there are sudden crashes of TC without any error messages. TC just quits. The sporadic crash happens about 3 to 5 times a day and I am not able to reproduce it the next time. The usage of TC is pretty normal, nothing special of TC 7.5. Last time I was changing into a directory with synchronous directory switching enabled. This was the last operation before the sudden crash. I use WinXPSP3.

I know it will be hard to get any clues from my information not to speak from reproduction.

[ghisler(Author)]

I haven't received any other reports of such instability, sorry. To the contrary, I worked a lot on the stability from beta to beta, and it should be much more stable than the earlier betas. Did you install anything else in the meantime which could affect the stability of Total Commander? A crash without any error message usually means that the error occurs somewhere outside of TC, so TC couldn't even catch the exception...

[lzvk25]

In my case, it happens while I am viewing a file which lister or it's plugins cannot handle. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to reproduce.

However, I am finding out that it happens with certain frequency when the file has no extension.

[WatchUer]

I met this sudden crash quit too when changing to thumbnail view with a special picture in current folder(can't see with F3).

Where do I mail the picture to? support at ghisler dot com?

[MVV]

I met this sudden crash quit too when changing to thumbnail view with a special picture in current folder(can't see with F3).

I think this crash is not by TC fault but by TC plugin fault. Probably you should contact with plugin developer.

[WatchUer]

I met this sudden crash quit too when changing to thumbnail view with a special picture in current folder(can't see with F3).

I think this crash is not by TC fault but by TC plugin fault. Probably you should contact with plugin developer.

I guess this too, but TC should handle this crash and shouldn't just quit without any info.

[MVV]

I met this sudden crash quit too when changing to thumbnail view with a special picture in current folder(can't see with F3).

I think this crash is not by TC fault but by TC plugin fault. Probably you should contact with plugin developer.

I guess this too, but TC should handle this crash and shouldn't just quit without any info.

If plugin causes a serious error, operating system may just kill application. TC may not be possible to do something.
But you are right, let Christian to determine if this error may be caught. I think you may upload file on any file server with free access for downloading. And type here, which multimedia plugin you use for opening this file.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC tries to catch errors which happen in plugins, but if the error is so bad that it (for example) overwrites the entire stack, then TC has no chance to recover from the crash.

So please view (with F3) a file of the same type to see in lister title what plugin is used, and then contact the author of the plugin about the problematic picture.

[WatchUer]

After removed two lister plugins(Imagine and SGViewer), TC won't crash anymore in thumbnail view.

See the picture with F3(Imagine) will pop up a "unknown error" dialog box.

See the picture with F3(SGViewer), just a blank viewer without error info.

I can see the picture with ACDSee, so the picture is abnormal and Imagine and SGViewer can not handle it.

Could TC do something to prevent the sudden quit?

[Boofo]

2WatchUer
I have both of those plugins installed and they work fine with no crashes. What image type are you trying to view when the crash happens? Maybe you could provide a link to one of the problem images and I could test it?