Although we've never been able to reproduce exactly what schnide has been seeing, BookMacster 1.7.3 (Beta), just released, has several improvements which fix all the hangs we could find.  To get it,

• Launch BookMacster.
• Make sure you're Preference is set to get Beta versions, like this:


• Click in the menu BookMacster ▸ Check for Updates.

To all: Please let us know if you find any way to make BookMacster 1.7.3 hang.  We uncovered one related bug in OS X Lion while working on this issue, and it now has some attention inside Apple.  If we can isolate any more, we'll do what we can to help Apple reproduce and fix them.

Thanks!

Thank you, Joe.  Although I'm still get the hang by using the Bookmarklet as you do, I can sometimes get BookMacster to similarly hang during one of Lion's Auto Saves, if I throw everything but the kitchen sink at it for about 20 minutes.  But it's never reproducible.

I've opened a Support Incident with Apple, so that one of their engineers will take a look at what we're doing.  In the meantime, if you or anyone finds a way to reproduce this, please let us know.  By "way to reproduce", I mean that, when it hangs, after the force-quit and relaunch, try to do what you just did prior to the hang and see if it hangs again.

I'll post here when the incident is resolved; it usually takes about a week.

schnide wrote on Sep 6^th, 2011 at 6:01pm:
Joe, I just found a site which has a list of links to pages that load really fast.  Then I exported the BookMacsterize bookmarklet to Safari, and began clicking away to create bookmarks as fast as I could.  After 60 seconds, I had created 12 bookmarks.  BookMacster/Lion did their Auto Save after adding each one.  There were no hangs.

Have you seen any hangs since updating to BookMacster 1.7.2?  I'm worried about repetitive stress syndrome if I'd try to create more than 12 bookmarks per minute

More seriously maybe, if you're still seeing hangs in 1.7.2, how many CPU cores do you have on your Mac?

Thank you, Joe.  We're beating on this issue right now and will test it thoroughly with the bookmarklet.

Hello schnide,

We've made several improvements in saving and autosaving in the last couple days, although we've not been able to reproduce the problem that you've been seeing.

Does it do it every time you add a bookmark?

When you get the hang after adding a bookmark, are you using the Status Menulet, Dock Menu or Bookmarklet?

If the problem is reproducible, please consider running Trouble Zipper to send us your data, along with any Steps to Reproduce, so we can try it.  To do that, in BookMacster, click in the menu Help ▸ Trouble Zipper.  For question F (Files), please include this large Bookmarkshelf Document in which you're seeing the problem.

Thanks,

Jerry Krinock

Jerry Krinock wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 7:34pm:


I am running Lion. And it is when it is saving on its own after an add.

Hello,

For the last couple of days, things seem to get hung and unresponsive when it is writing the bkmslf file. I have to force quite and restart it. On the restart, it loses the last thing saved to the file. Yes, it is still a giant file. It has the animation going as it is writing but after a 5+ minutes, I kill it. Any ideas?

Thanks