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ELAN 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 crashes
Hello,
I don't know if this is very common, but recently I have been experiencing some ELAN programme crashes. After finishing a line, wanting to go backwards on the soundline, sometimes, ELAN crashes.
Now, I know there's very little you can do, but please inform me if it's normal or if anybody else has the same problem.
Many
thanks,
Alecs Prodan
CLA (Cercle de Lungüística Aplicada), University of Lleida
Re: ELAN 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 crashes
When ELAN decides to crash
by Alecs Prodan
(Just in case, make a copy of your ELAN files before
doing this)
1. Close
ELAN
2. Go to
the folder My Documents\ ELAN save files
3. Of
the file you’re working, you should have more than one file
{ your ELAN file
(.EAF) is named example.eaf }
4. You’ll
find another one called example.eaf.001 (or you’ll see that it is said to be
File type 001)
5. Right
click on this 001 file, open with… , (select programme from a list), Wordpad
6. Select
all the information ( Edit – Select all )
7. Copy
8. Now,
open the file example.eaf with Wordpad as well, select all, delete, and Paste
9. Now
you can open example.eaf from ELAN and all your transcript should be there
Salutations,
Alecs Prodan
CLA (Cercle de Lungüística Aplicada), University of Lleida
Re: ELAN 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 crashes
Thanks for reporting. Could you a bit more specific on what you mean by finishing a line and going backwards on the soundline? Is this after playing a selection and then placing the media playhead back to the beginning of the selection?
Which Windows version is this and what kind of media files?
Instead of the copy and paste actions you could also rename the files in explorer by removing the .001 part.
-Han
Re: Re: ELAN 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 crashes
Indeed.
For example, I'm finishing something a Tier said and then quickly press ENTER for the line to close so I can move to the next speech moment after a pause. Now, after pressing ENTER I go either back or forward rather quickly, with SHIFT+ARROW and then quickly press ALT+C to clear selection then CTR+SPACE to start a selection. The problem is, to my belief, that sometimes either ELAN or Windows itself doesn't take it. Although I don't think it's Windows because we're on a CoreDuo 3.00GHz and 4Gb RAM, but then again... it's Windows...
We're using Windows XP Professional ( 5.1 comp 2600 ) SP3 .
The sound files are WAV and the video files are MPG .
Rename the files? That's what I first thought. Press F2 and erase the .001 . Well, not in this version of XP at least. The files are named exactly like the original ones ELAN is working with, but the file TYPE is .001 . Strange, isn't it?
Oh, by the way, I have written an "ELAN for Starters" manual for other colleagues here in Lleida and at the University of Barcelona and Cardiff. There are a couple of things yet to be added, but everybody found it rather useful because it's technical-jargon-free as we'd say. Contact me in case you'd like to have a look at it.
Salutations,
Alecs Prodan
alecsprodan@dal.udl.cat
Re: Re: Re: ELAN 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 crashes
Ah, I see. I never noticed it, but could be that rapidly using a series of shortcuts could lead to problems. The media player(s) and the viewers need to be updated several times and there could be a problem in the synchronisation of these events? Can try to reproduce.
We're always interested in documentation like that, written by users. We could add it to the "third party resources" page, if you like (there are already similar documents there, but more are welcome).
-Han
Third party update, regular expressions
