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I recently determined that I was afflicted with some kind of Firewire malfunction -- either in a cable, the hub, and/or one of three drives. Many crashes in many applications. Before assuming there's something amiss in DP -- I suggest unhooking ALL Firewire devices and cables and seeing how DP runs ...

bayswater -- Thanks for the reply. I'll look for the notes about the original 828; it's high time I replaced it anyway, since it's something like 15 years old, and I had suspected it might be contributing to the weird MAS drop-out on playback (15-30 seconds of silence at unpredictable moments.) Sinc...

Roughly 20 crashes today. It only happens when I: 1. Save. Poof, gone are the changes. 5 times out of 10. 2. Playback. Poof, the program vanishes. 5 times out of 10. 3. Anytime. Maybe 3 times out of 10. I've been through the war since 1990, since the early days of Finale 2, Vision, Cue, Vision Studi...

OK, I'm made some more discoveries. Are any of you fellow crashers using Mozy Home Backup? Rip it out and throw it away. I found two dozen crash items just today in the /Library/Logs/Crashreports -- after something like that many Digital Performer crashes. (Digital Performer is not showing up in the...

I'm late to the Crash Party, but I'm getting back up to speed with DP 7.1, after 2 years away (last version DP 5). Tons of crashes and processor overloads; all the tips above duly noted. PLAY from East-West is a central processor culprit. Keep purging samples and fiddling with the engine. (1 or 2 le...