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Bad experience = removed application
Authored by: ebow on Nov 02, '01 12:10:23AM

I downloaded the Preference Pane version of the app. I pointed it at a folder that contains 51 pictures, and it slowly picked up all of them. But it really slowed down the hard drive (and the system). And then it slowed things down more. I tried to quit System Preferences, and waited. Eventually, some message about the hard drive came up, but was partially covered by a Finder window. The pointer barely responded to mouse movements, and the clock wasn't running. So basically, it was unusable, and I had to restart. After restarting? Uninstalled the app and threw it away. So much for that.



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Bad experience = removed application
Authored by: thrash on Nov 02, '01 01:10:47AM

same thing happened to me...
I had a terminal window open to top
and it had gobbled up 1.2GB of VM in about 30 seconds
killed the process and deleted the file

the application seems ok though

thrash



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Bad experience = removed application
Authored by: ebow on Nov 02, '01 01:39:05AM

I suppose some info about my configuration might help take my post from complaining to informative. I'm running OS X 10.1 on an iMac DV SE 500 with 640MB RAM. At the time I tried SwitchPic, I had a significant (but not excessive) number of applications running, with an uptime of 11+ days.

I do wish I had a terminal running in the foreground when things went foul, as Thrash mentioned. I could tell this was a case of one process not playing nice (apparently not by the rules, either) but I was unable to remedy the situation.



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blurb from author...
Authored by: robg on Nov 02, '01 01:41:40AM

I just added a blurb from the author that explains the behavior...not that it helps your problems (sorry!), but he hopes to make it behave better with the next release.

-rob.



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Bad experience = removed application
Authored by: thrash on Nov 02, '01 02:23:15AM

just to note...

I am running a Ti/400 with 640MB RAM and ~740MB free HD space
only a couple hours of uptime and a few apps running

at first I suspected that there was a
memory leak or malicious code

reassuring to see it was just a bit sloppy

nice app though!!!

thrash



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