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Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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hi,
in the last edition I can confirm the same issue. I cannot reproduce it, but quite often when I have a few tabs open (5-10) when I press save as in order to save a pdf it goes to no responding state until I have to forced close it.
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Re: UI / Rendering - App Crashes / Stops responding

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Hello psail,

Welcome to our Forum.

Please install this and see if it helps resolve the issue:

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe


Regards.

[Edit] - This thread was split from the original posted thread, as the focus of the issue is on somewhat different functions.
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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thank you, I have installed and I will test it the next days. As I said I cannot reproduce it. It is something that it happens in random moments.
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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it did it again. With just 3 tabs open. I have it in no responding state right now. Is there anything I can do in order to help you identify the issue?
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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Hello, psail

Sorry for the delay, I assume you have closed it by now, but the Editor should have created a crash dump in this scenario, can you please check this folder in the file explorer:

%localappdata%\CrashDumps\PDFX

And upload the most recent file to our upload server here: https://files.pdf-xchange.com/s/DkQzrDWActFDLAg
Please let me know once the file is present.

The next time this happens, before you force close the Editor, could I also ask that you create a "process dump" of the frozen editor, and upload that to the same location.
As with the crash dump from today, please let me know when this happens next, and when the process dump has been uploaded.

Kind regards,
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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Fortunately, I didn't forced closed. I did it now, but there is no such file in the specific folder.
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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Hello, psail,

If this is a case of PDF Editor becomes unresponsive, please generate these two types of process dumps:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... estigation

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... or-Procmon


...and upload them, to the same location:

And upload the most recent file to our upload server here: https://files.pdf-xchange.com/s/DkQzrDWActFDLAg
Please let me know once the file is present.

Regards.
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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I have uploaded a file. I am not sure if it the right file but it's a start.
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Re: Save As - App Crashes / Stops responding

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Hello, psail

Thank you for that, I have informed the dev team this is present, and will be back to let you know what they find as soon as we hear from them.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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