Lantastic 5 Lock-up
19-Aug-94 00:19:25
Sb: #119133-Lantastic 5 Lock-up
Fm: Don Landis 71673,3612
To: Richard J. Smith 72613,2367
>>are not all good little animators up a 3:30am? I was a big bad animator and
that's what caused me to be up finishing that piece at that hour for delivery
this morning. I rendered 500 frames (NET) and forgot to unhide a couple of
objects. Thanks to my system not shutting down I got back up at 9 and dumped
to the PAR while I had breakfast and delivered at the piece at 10. Now I can
go on my vacation!
When you get things like that happening its time to start cleaning your system.
Maybe a good backup, reformat the HD (best defragger known to computer
science), restore, and reinstall some of the software that has been giving you
problems. I find this takes less time than trying to figure out the offending
file and replace it. Chances are the problems you're having are caused by a
number of slightly corrupted files. Robust applications require lots of free
HD space too. Best if it is contiguous. I like to reserve at least a hundred
megs for the 3DS environment to work in.