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Printing broken, Tab management issues, slow/beachballing - v 2.3.12, Mac / OS X

sminar

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Hi,

I'm having trouble Printing and experiencing slowdowns and unexpected behavior in BeerSmith2.

I've been using BeerSmith2 pretty much without issue since around July 2016. I'm using the OS X version, currently 2.3.12.
I started experiencing unusual behavior with the app a few days ago. I had created and worked on a new recipe without issue. In my workflow, I usually create a recipe then copy it to my Brew Log, changing the name to reflect a current batch/instance/brew session. The copy and rename went fine. I started adjusting the recipe based on ingredients in stock. All seemed fine. I can't retrace the precise steps to uncover possible triggers, but at some point after working with the recipe in the Brew Log, shutting down, opening, doing more work, I started to encounter really slow opening and shutdown of BeerSmith2. I then tried to open the recipe to work with it again and found it very slow to open. Once open, I attempted to print via File->Print. The print dialog would appear after a bit. It would claim there are 3 pages that need to be printed, but the preview contents showed blank pages. I went ahead and printed. It took a fairly long time and produced only one blank page.

I tried to close the recipe tab, but the app wouldn't close the tab. I was able to open a 2nd recipe tab, sometimes it would close, sometimes it wouldn't. I attempted to use Print Preview (and Print) on different recipes in different folders. Sometimes the dialog would appear, sometimes it wouldn't. Only once in many, many attempts did I actually get a dialog with a recipe showing in the preview.

I then tried to bring up the Hydrometer adjust tool and it wouldn't even show up. The app is behaving like the window management features are messed up.

I restarted my machine to see if it might be OS X / session problem related. No change.

I deleted the app and reinstalled from a fresh dmg download. No change.

I searched for cache files, plists, pref files and renamed them to backup versions thinking there might be some corruption. No change.

So I'm stuck with a non-working BeerSmith2 at the moment, afraid to do any work on the recipe.

Of course it happened right as I needed to print out to begin yesterday's brew session!

Would love to hear ideas on how to get back to working state.

Cheers,
Steve
 
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