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ON1 2019.5 shows splash screen, starts up, shows help centre window, locks up

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  • charles peters

    Your not alone

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    You haven't mentioned it, but I bet you're using On1 as a plugin. It's a known issue that you can't clear the welcome screen on first run. To get around it, open On1 as standalone, clear the screen and it will work fine after that.

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  • Ian Watters

    No, this is standalone, and always has been standalone.

    What happens is that the window for that screen - marked as help centre, but could well be a welcome screen - appears and is then never painted. In fact, the display driver (AMD) eventually crashes and restarts, and it still doesn't paint the screen.

    I've gone back to 2019.2 which is working.

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    Ian, the problem that you're describing sounds a lot like 2019.5 BETA because they didn't have the help screens finished at that point. Are you sure we're talking about the 2019.5 FINAL release?

    If you check the About in the Help menu, your version should be 2019.5 (13.5.0.7007)

    If it's not right, redownload the final version.

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  • Frank McManus

    I'm having the exact same problem. Totally disgusted

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  • Ian Watters

    I can't get to the help menu! It's not a case of the welcome screen not showing but being able to use the app: it completely locks up and is totally unusable.

    You could have seen the build number in the Windows crash report above - it is indeed 13.5.0.7007.

     

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    Ian, so you've been working on this for 3 days. I hope you send in a support request by now, if not, follow the link attached. There has to be something about your PC that's causing this. If you send your sysinfo in, On1 might be able to pinpoint it.

    I don't know if you'll have a log file or not. If you do, you won't be able to get to it through On1. You'll have to navigate there through windows. You'll be able to find it here. (Note, AppData may be hidden, turn on hidden files to see it):

    C:\Users\(your name)\AppData\Roaming\ON1\ON1 Photo RAW 2019\ON1 Photo RAW Log.txt

    You can use the Submit button at the top of this page.

    https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018405111-How-to-submit-a-problem-to-ON1-Tech-Support-A-Step-by-step-Guide

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  • Ian Watters

    Done. It would be nice if the support system said 'yes, we have received this report' rather than just going to a generic page...

    That log file is terrible - why on earth does it not have CR/LF characters between the lines?

    We never did sort out that bet in your first comment, did we? :)

     

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  • Ian Watters

    (Ah, if I email it to myself and look at it on Ubuntu, it does have LFs - Notepad obviously ignores them, but for a Windows program using Windows conventions makes sense.)

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    Whenever I submit a bug report I have always received an email within a minute or two confirming receipt of the report. It contains everything I entered on the web page.

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    ... also if you click on your name at the top of this page, there is an option to see your support tickets. I see that the Beta ones aren't there, but I have 3 pages of them! :)

     

    By the way, my log didn't use to have CR/LF but now it does. I don't know how or why it changed.

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  • Adam Cornwell

    I'm in a similar boat. Kept getting a "Not Responding" in the title bar after updating to 2019.5. Emailed support. They checked the logs. Didn't see anything wrong. Suggested a fresh install, which I did. Still unusable.

    Just opend On1 and 5 minutes later it's still trying to load thumbnails for ~50 images in a folder. Try to change folders..."Not Responding" for another 15 minutes. 

    Wondered if it needed more free file space for swapping files, but I have 65 GB free on the C drive (SSD) and 369 GB free on the photos hard drive (platter).

    I really wanted to use On1 for the nice combo of LR and PS features in one. 

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    A fresh install may or may not help, but I'm wondering if you actually did that. It means completely removing anything On1 from your system before re-installing the latest version. If you did that, great, if not, then you didn't change anything.

    For myself, I think the biggest improvement came when I moved the swap file to my M.2 card. Everything seems to be working 'better' after that. (Not perfect, just better)

    I have 8gb mem and my swap file is 16gb as recommended.

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  • Ian Watters

    What's worked, following a suggestion from support, editing an .ini file so the offending screen isn't shown.

    (Certainly 16GiB and 'as much as you need' swap file, I think.)

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  • Ian Watters

    The same thing happens with the 2020 Beta.

    I am now looking to see what the .ini file change was.

    Ah, yes, go to

    C > Users > Your User Name > AppData > Roaming > ON1 > ON1 Layers 2019

    Open the ON1Layers2019.ini file in Notepad (or similar editor), and scroll to the bottom until you see [ShowFirstRun].  Edit both entries beneath it to 'false', then save the file. 

    Replacing 2019 with 2020 and doing it to all three entries (ShowFirstRunResize is new) means I can start the sodding thing.

     

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