It sounds like you're having the exact same problem that Doug "tanstaafl" Burnside is having. It shouldn't be doing this at all. Has Doug contacted you and gotten any information from you? I know that recently he was trying to round up machine details for all the people experiencing the problem to see if there was any commonality.

Have you turned on logging, made it crash, zipped up the log file, then sent it to [email protected]?

This is, of course, a serious bug, the first serious synch bug since around beta 10 or so. The guys@empeg are investigating it. Needless to say, this isn't the kind of thing they want to have happening, so it's important to them to track down the cause.

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Tony Fabris