Dumped! what did i do wrong?

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ajm
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Re: Dumped! what did i do wrong?

Post by ajm »

Just to add that Windows (from XP on) doesn't really limit the size of a text file on an NTFS drive. It would start to become a problem if the editor used can't open a large file. I read that Notepad would call it quit at 512 MB, for example. But "real" text editors can open several GBs files, provided you have the RAM.
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Knish
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Re: Dumped! what did i do wrong?

Post by Knish »

thanks all!

just a final oddity: i don't understand how my GPUs.txt file could go missing. i'm certainly not deleting it. I'm under the assumption fah will go looking for a new one every so often?
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Re: Dumped! what did i do wrong?

Post by Joe_H »

The other possibility is that the client reached the point where it was trying to update the GPUs.txt file. That happens about once a month. The order of some startup items for the client also were modified for the current version, perhaps that created a potential for something to go wrong under the right circumstances.

But ultimately the reason may never be certain. Could be that with a large go file after running that long the whole system needed to be given just a bit more time before stopping FAHClient and rebooting.
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