FM9 suggestions - why it keeps locking up

[Shmuel Wolfson]

  I had problems with Frame shutting often when I had several pods 
combined into one, especially the conditional text pod. I separated most 
of them and it's been much better.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 14-Oct-10 4:40 AM, Mary Holder wrote:
> Hello Framers,
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> I am running FM9 on a laptop AND on a PC, both with Windows7.
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> FM9 works fine (98% of the time) on the laptop, but I cannot get it to run
> more than 30 minutes on my PC without having to exit and restart FrameMaker.
> Frustrated does not begin to describe my feeling!
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> The most common reason to exit is that the designers no longer work. I can
> apply a style and apply and apply, and it doesn't take. I cannot see my
> formatting, so I cannot continue. This is true for all of the designers.
> (This is only true on the PC.)
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> Another thing it does is just stop responding. I look at Task Manager and it
> says FM is running, but it does not respond to keyboard or mouse commands.
> Also, just tonight, the document I was working on went completely black. A
> few headings came back up, but that was it. I had to close FM using the Task
> Manger.
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> I just reopened the document that died, and none of my changes were saved,
> nor was an auto file created.
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> Does any of this make any sense at all? I usually have Internet radio
> playing and Outlook in the background, but according to Task Manager I've
> got plenty of resources.
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> Why would it work on the laptop, but not the PC? I'm just about to trash it
> and go back to FM8! Please help.
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> Thanks,
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> Mary Holder
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> Owner, The Roving TechWriter
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> http://www.therovingtechwriter.com<http://www.therovingtechwriter.com/>
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