Unstable installation - please help

[kevin0]

hi there

 

I bought am and like it but i find it crashes very frequently.

 

i did a standard install, etc. does anyone else experience this, it's very frustrating.

 

thanks

 

kev

[Fuchur]

What OS, etc.?

Windows Vista for example has to be setted in a certain way to run with A:M more smoothly.

 

*Fuchur*

[GCharb]

Stable as a rock here on xp pro sp2

 

Gilles

[steve392]

Had no problems ,v15 xp home sp2

[largento]

Kevin, I used to get crashes when I first started working with A:M, but as I gained more experience working with it, I learned that there's a sort of right way and wrong way to do things. The biggest culprit for me early on was, just clicking in a bunch of places rapidly: going to do one thing, and then realizing I needed to do something else and confusing A:M to the point that it gave up on me. :-)

 

There are still some things that will take A:M down for me no matter what. (If I try to make a New Filter in the PWS using the drop down menu on a Mac, it will go bye-bye everytime.)

 

There's a kind of rhythm to using A:M that you'll pick up the more you use it and then the crashes will pretty much go away. At least, that was my experience.

[Luuk Steitner]

Which version of A:M are you running? Some old versions tend to crash a lot, but A:M has become very stable nowadays. I haven't had much crashes since V13. V15 has never crashed here as far as I can recall.

[kevin0]

i am using version 15 and running os 10.4.1.1

[Luuk Steitner]

O, you're on a Mac... In that case follow Largento's advise.

[robcat2075]

There are still some things that will take A:M down for me no matter what. (If I try to make a New Filter in the PWS using the drop down menu on a Mac, it will go bye-bye everytime.)

 

When you can reproduce something like that exactly, make an A:M Report of it. If you haven't already.