I just purchased Scapple and started using it, which turns out to be painful because the app is freezing for minutes at a time regularly! Sometimes I have no choice but to do a forced Quit and then the app cannot be restarted until i rebooted the machine... Really frustrating...
Is this a known issue or is there a way to solve it?
Constant Freezes (beachballs)
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Hi
If it is beach-balling for one Scapple project / file, it sounds as if there is an issue with that file—perhaps a large imported image or something similar.
If it is beach-balling for different Scapple projects / files, it sounds as if there is an issue with the program itself.
In the second case, I would delete Scapple, restart the Mac, grab a fresh download of the latest build (or download again from the Apple App Store), and reinstall.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php
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Briar Kit
If it is beach-balling for one Scapple project / file, it sounds as if there is an issue with that file—perhaps a large imported image or something similar.
If it is beach-balling for different Scapple projects / files, it sounds as if there is an issue with the program itself.
In the second case, I would delete Scapple, restart the Mac, grab a fresh download of the latest build (or download again from the Apple App Store), and reinstall.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple.php
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Briar Kit
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A very old thread, I know, but nonetheless: Just downloaded Scapple to my brand new 8-core MacBook Pro — and I repeatedly keep experiencing minute-long freezes (where the entire Mac is held up — no switching apps, no opening menus — not even a spinning ball until after a couple of frustrated efforts to click something or hit a key, at what point the ball will appear for the remainder of the downtime.)
This is sometimes (but not always) related to UNDOing, perhaps more likely when the undo includes a change of note formatting. But it has also appeared while doing regular work — again, seemingly most often when changing the formatting of a note. Or soon after.
To put things in perspective, frequency-wise, I downloaded the app this morning (1.3.4) and have since experienced about a dozen freezes — this after playing around with the app for only a couple of hours. So it's decidedly way too often to be able to shrug it away...
Thoughts?
(Also, seeing as how the app splash-screen reserves copyright up until 2019, and how some on this forum seem to complain about unfixed stuff: Is it too late in the lifespan of this app to pay for it? Scapple does a MUCH better job for writing-related work IMO than others I have tried — like iThoughtsX or MindNode — but I wouldn't want to commit to an app that's slowly about to show itself out the door... Anyone here knows the status on that?)
Thanks!
This is sometimes (but not always) related to UNDOing, perhaps more likely when the undo includes a change of note formatting. But it has also appeared while doing regular work — again, seemingly most often when changing the formatting of a note. Or soon after.
To put things in perspective, frequency-wise, I downloaded the app this morning (1.3.4) and have since experienced about a dozen freezes — this after playing around with the app for only a couple of hours. So it's decidedly way too often to be able to shrug it away...
Thoughts?
(Also, seeing as how the app splash-screen reserves copyright up until 2019, and how some on this forum seem to complain about unfixed stuff: Is it too late in the lifespan of this app to pay for it? Scapple does a MUCH better job for writing-related work IMO than others I have tried — like iThoughtsX or MindNode — but I wouldn't want to commit to an app that's slowly about to show itself out the door... Anyone here knows the status on that?)
Thanks!
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