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of course I tempted fate! and have had no crashes at all until yesterday, spent about 10hrs working on Harding Park, then boom on my final save a crash during the save (control S). so strange, and of course caught me w my pants down and had no backups except 1 that was from about 8hrs earlier.

I did no planting, no previous problems in the past going back to June 1 when I started working on this. Just a bunch of vert tweaking, extruded a small boathouse that neighbors the course, left it as a box really, just textured the side, made a path on a street about 300yds long, no biggie I dont think as I have 2 or 3 others.

also noticed on my crashed version, which of course was not able to open, said it wasnt a CRZ, had ballooned to 180mb from 140mb w me doing nothing but adding textures to replace the aerial around the shoreline for a small section, did nothing out of the ordinary. scares me now as I dont want to lose all this work. Anyone have ideas as to what happened??

There are no pat answers to why APCD crashes.

The best advice is to save as often as possible, even if it takes 20 minutes to save. I always copy and paste my latest save to the backup directory.

That's the best thing to do. I never lose more than 10-15 minutes worth of work.

10 hours......SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEsh....................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sage......

That is soul destroying.
In my case the crashes normally occur when I do too many edge turns.

Good luck,
Ian

I agree with Ian. Most all crashes occur when working with edges.

interesting, but still, you have to do alot of edge work to get details right, esp on 3D work. my saves are about 10sec, I save all the time, I just got lazy I guess that day, oh well, life goes on, just take a day away and re-do ur work, no biggie right? grrrrrr I did have an Avast virus running in the background and it pops up once in awhile during APCD work. I DID notice the blue spinning 'pc thinking' wheel just before the save and crash, hmmm. not sure what caused it but thats the only thinkg I can think of.

I got to thinking and with all this APCD work, the only course I really have to show finished is Colonial! so frustrated by that, that I'm finishing Harding Park before I move on to my other unfinished courses, Olympic and Riviera. So I'm planning on finishing Harding Park next month then take a few months off and do touch-ups and changes the client wants on the kitchen, then work on Olympic over Xmas, which is perfect as I usually have a low work-load.
So this week is doing the custom tree work on the Monterrey Cypresses, hoping this wont add to the file size too much, I will be using about 30 custom trees I'm guessing.