Yummy FTP Watcher Constantly Freezing Up

[draherin]

I've got the most current version of Yummy FTP Watcher and it seemed to work fine when I bought/installed it on Tuesday (I purchased all three: Yummy FTP; Yummy FTP Alias; and Yummy FTP Watcher). Now, however, every time I launch Watcher it locks up and I get the spinning wheel of death. I can run Yummy FTP just fine, so this error seems limited to the Watcher only. Is there a solution for this?

OSX: 10.7.5
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Cire Intel Xeon
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[JD]

This isn't a known issue. I suspect something in your configuration has changed 'behind its back' causing it to go awry.

Try moving your Bookmarks folder out of the Yummy FTP Watcher folder and re-launch. The problem should go away - then you can re-add your Bookmarks one by one to find the culprit. You'll need to quit and re-laucnh Watcher each time you change it like this.

The Bookmarks folder is located :

Mac HD -> Users -> yourname -> Library -> Application Support -> Yummy FTP Watcher

If the issue persists, run Activity Monitor from the Applications -> Utilities folder, then find the Watcher process, select it and click Sample. Send the resulting text to me :

support @ yummysoftware dot com

[draherin]

Ok, the short story is that I did all that and its still happening. I just sent you the sample process. Looking forward to a solution. Thanks!

[JD]

For those reading, it was because the user had chosen practically an entire hard drive and all its sub-folders to watch. This is beyond the capabilities of Watcher, simply because of the vast quantity of folders to watch… it was not locking up, just taking a while to scan the entire HD.