I had a interesting thing happen.
The power cord got pulled out of my notebook that I started doing the following:
Admin > ;Generate the effects gallery on your local installed nutcracker' command
When I brought it out of standby I did a screen refresh of the webpage and it began executing the following command:
You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login
The cursor has stopped indicating that anything is running on the page and no further activity has appeared in the last 10 minutes or so.
Since there has been no completed message I am making the assumption that the command has completed.
I will now run the following as explained earlier.
You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login.
I will post if I have any problems.
Same here everything stop about 10 15 minute ago
if you do not use "End of program", it ha snot finished going through all users.
Understand what this program is doing. It is going though a 1000 users and for each calling multiple effects. Sionce nutcracker is a web based operation, we need to suppress all the prompts that poccur when u use it normally.
so we setup a batch mode. pass in all parameters as if you had filled ina form, now it runs through the effect. If any effect abrubtly dies, the program is done and the cursor prompt will change back to normal.
If i every see the busy icon of the cursor go back to normal, i just reload the page. i think i had to do this 3 or 5 times. I did go through and fix many of these dies. This is why you see almost every effect had been modified in this release.
The issue is 7000 effects have a small percentage with very bad data. Alpha fields in numbers, frame timing (sb 25-100) having values like 0.01 .etc.
In the next major release , we will improve data validation of all prompts. So why were these problems never raised before. I think if someones effect didnt work, they just recreated another, it works and they used that one.
So , in summary, if you dont see "End of Program" do a shift reload. You will now see lots of GREE "ok" until you reach where you left off. Then you start to see thre purple"rebuilding".
Be aware , there is one effect that loops forever. The user is Greg in Canby, member_id=215.
When i did a run, i let the process go overnight. I stopped the browser the next day and did a reload. It then skipped the file it was on. I later went back and looked at ../effects/workspaces/215 and found a 420gb file!.
I have gone and logged in to his account. he only has a few effects. one f them is a spiral that is causing the issue. I see no issue with his data but it does get into a loop. I still have to debug why, one effect out of 7000 has this issue.
for now, if your screen is not advancing at least one "rebuilding" every 5 minutes. stop the browser and reload it. Remember that i skip the last effect you were stuck on.
Remember that i originally said it would take 48 hours to rebuild. I did some things that havd dropped this to more like 12-18 hours. But ... therecan be two things that can happen
1) An effect that you are running exits with a die(message) command. Remember in batch mode you dont see all the exhoes , prints and dies
2) You hit an effect that loops
In both cases, stop teh browser and reload is the fix.
thanks
sean