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#71

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Tailspin45 - February 29, 2024, 10:02:12 AM

Deleted app, downloaded new copy from App Store. Problem persists.

Couldn't find any App Support or plist files or I would have deleted them too

#72

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Tailspin45 - February 29, 2024, 09:19:28 AM

Share with app developers was off. Crash report attached.

Tried loading just one session, any session. No joy.

Restart didn't help.

Disk Utility ran successfully on the volume where I save previous year's data. Observatory is on internal SSD

#73

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Tailspin45 - February 29, 2024, 09:13:32 AM

Is there an Observatory 1 / Observatory 2 switch somewhere other than Settings?

IOW, it seems you're saying Obs2 can run as if it were Obs1.

If that is correct, how are the modes selected?

#74

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Sander Berents - February 28, 2024, 10:01:17 PM

I haven't received a full crash report from Apple yet. The only ones I received are for the Quick Look plugin (may be related to the colorful icon issue you have been having). Unless you have disabled the crash report sharing in your Analytics & Improvements System Settings, I should receive it in a few days, which should help me find the underlying cause of the crash.

It sounds like it could be caused by a single November or December image though. It may not be consistent because Observatory 2 imports multiple images simultaneously^*.

^* Unless it runs in Observatory 1 mode, in which case it imports images sequentially (one CPU core only), which is way slower.

#75

General Discussion / Re: Bias thumbnails in a varie...

Last post by Tailspin45 - February 28, 2024, 07:00:43 PM

FITS files still have colorful icons, but only the small size. Large icons in lists are all a reasonable representation of the image.

This seems weird, but doesn't hurt anything so let's consider this resolved.

#76

General Discussion / Termination Reason: Namespa...

Last post by Tailspin45 - February 28, 2024, 06:51:17 PM

Spent the day trying to populate a new library without success thanks to frequent crashes or hangs.

I successfully loaded my data collected to date into a 2024 library, but when I tried to load my 2023 data in a different library, Observatory crashed when I tried to drop the whole folder (1.25Tb).

I tried loading a dozen or so dates at a time and got through November, but even loading one session at a time the program crashes...but not always. Import doesn't work at all, simply ignored.

(There are 100Gb free on the internal SSD.)

The crash reports indicates Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6.

I've restarted the program several times, of course, and tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail.

#77

General Discussion / Re: Bias thumbnails in a varie...

Last post by Sander Berents - January 10, 2024, 09:14:20 PM

These three look normal to me in Quick Look, the same as when they are debayered in Observatory. This is on an 2013 15" Intel MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur. How do they look to you?

#78

General Discussion / Re: Bias thumbnails in a varie...

Last post by Tailspin45 - January 10, 2024, 11:45:36 AM

I know the QuickLook extension isn't for JPEGs and TIFFs, but they nevertheless have colored thumbnails.  I attached those screengrabs because I can't attach FITs files here, as you know.

Dropbox has three FITs files that have colored thumbnails but otherwisse seem completely normal.

#79

General Discussion / Re: Observatory not opening FI...

Last post by Sander Berents - January 09, 2024, 10:03:12 PM

Update: Frank has contacted the Tycho developer. The application has been updated and now uses the correct FITS identifier, resolving the problem for Observatory and other software.

#80

General Discussion / Re: Bias thumbnails in a varie...

Last post by Sander Berents - January 09, 2024, 09:59:25 PM

Observatory's QuickLook plugin isn't used for JPEGs and TIFFs. It is only used for FITS, XISF and SBIG images.

When you get it to work, please share a few of your images with Google Drive, or using iCloud.