There are a few quirks I have noticed and that may be the cause of the crashes. What seems to work pretty solidly is.
Open a recipe.
Create a folder to put it in.
OOOps BS kept the focus on the imported recipe and created a folder in that tab.
Now this is a magig folder because you can put things in but you can't get them out. You also can't move the folder. The icon should really be a black hole. But I have been here before so I know not to put anything in the magic folder and return focus to MY RECIPE's and.
Add a new folder.
Drag the imported recipe into the new folder (not the magic one).
SPOD for awhile then sudden quit.
BS doesn't save anything till it quits apparently so anything you have done since you opened the app is lost.
When you reopen BS there is a dialog telling you it's tossing some fine.
It would be nice if there were a way of saving the databases with out having to quit and reopen.
BS should really be doing some incremental saving along the line since you can't force a save.
I got BS because it was such a pain in Beer Alchemy when you needed an ingredient not in it's db. You had to create it but you also had to save the recipe first. It seems like a small thing but one recipe with five or six new things and it gets to be a big deal right away.
So I'm not unhappy with BS but it could use some stability. I find it also a bit overly convoluted sometimes. Where you are trying different modes because there is a function you want to use but you have to find the right mode for it to show up.
Over all it's a touch windows 3.1 klunky, not a lot but a little. But it has a big easily expandable ingredients db and seems more able to deal with unusual brewing situations.
If it gets more stable I would probably give it three to three and a half stars, but it has promise to get to five (out of five).
Open a recipe.
Create a folder to put it in.
OOOps BS kept the focus on the imported recipe and created a folder in that tab.
Now this is a magig folder because you can put things in but you can't get them out. You also can't move the folder. The icon should really be a black hole. But I have been here before so I know not to put anything in the magic folder and return focus to MY RECIPE's and.
Add a new folder.
Drag the imported recipe into the new folder (not the magic one).
SPOD for awhile then sudden quit.
BS doesn't save anything till it quits apparently so anything you have done since you opened the app is lost.
When you reopen BS there is a dialog telling you it's tossing some fine.
It would be nice if there were a way of saving the databases with out having to quit and reopen.
BS should really be doing some incremental saving along the line since you can't force a save.
I got BS because it was such a pain in Beer Alchemy when you needed an ingredient not in it's db. You had to create it but you also had to save the recipe first. It seems like a small thing but one recipe with five or six new things and it gets to be a big deal right away.
So I'm not unhappy with BS but it could use some stability. I find it also a bit overly convoluted sometimes. Where you are trying different modes because there is a function you want to use but you have to find the right mode for it to show up.
Over all it's a touch windows 3.1 klunky, not a lot but a little. But it has a big easily expandable ingredients db and seems more able to deal with unusual brewing situations.
If it gets more stable I would probably give it three to three and a half stars, but it has promise to get to five (out of five).