Has anyone seen framemaker crash if you do a find and replace of a character format?

[Guest]

If I do a find and replace of a character format across an entire book, Framemaker sucks up all the memory on my system and then crashes. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior.

Steps to Reproduce

1. create a large book that contains several hundred pages and many framemaker files. Ideally, there should be 20 or so files in it.

2. through out the book, highlight text and then press ctrl+b. This applies a character format override of bold.

3.  open a framemaker doc from the book.

4. place your cursor in some  body text.

5. open the find dialog box.

6. Set find to character format.

7. In the find char format dialog box, press shift+F8.

8. In the find char format dialog box, press shift+F9.

9. in th find char format dialog box, set the weight to bold and then click the set button.

10. in the framemaker doc, find some text that has bold override applied to it and then apply a character format.

11. Use the copy special to copy the character format to your clipboard.

12. close all documents.

13. make sure the book is active.

14. in the find dialog box, set change to "by pasting".

15. select the find button.

System Specs:

Win 7, 64 bit

Processor: Intel Core i5

8 GB of RAM

solid state drive

[Arnis Gubins]

Which version and point release of FM? Some versions did have memory leaks.

[Guest]

I am using FrameMaker v10.0.2.419.

[bouleau_fm10]

FM 10 also crash in the following circumstances:

- you update an Excel sheet in your document,

- you update cross-references among two documents.

Those errors (Fatal Crash and you loose all the content...) always  occur  when repeating the same operations.

All to say, it makes FM 10 untrustable. Previous versions of FM were not so stable either

so much that I have to turn back to FM 7.2  when I need to work on such «complex» tasks.

We updated our version with the latest patch (v10.0.2.419 running on Windows 7 Professionnal) without much success.

In fact it is a real pity (I have been a loyal of FM  user since 1989, on Unix back then).

[Guest]

Yes, that's the impression I have gotten. Each version since FM 7.2 has gotten less stable than the last. I have noticed that, in general, crash more than on FM 9 and FM 9 crashed more than FM 8 etc. That said the crashes are still infrequent enough that I still find FM reliable enough to use on a day-to-day basis.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Not my experience at all running FM 9 and 10 in Win XP - I think I've had fewer than 10 crashes in 3 years of running FM. Most of those 10 were ones I caused myself and was testing to see if the bug had been fixed yet.

BTW - I wouldn't be updating an Excel sheet in a document as that seems to be running as an OLE object and that's known to be unstable (if you follow the chatter on the mailing lists & forums); importing by reference is safer and doesn't bloat your docs.