New warning prompt appearing during save operations

[Dave Labrecque]

This has only started in the last few weeks. Anyone seen this one before?

WARNING!
Plugin Settings Data Is Oversize...
Some Or All Settings May Be Lost!

[Ok]

After working in a session for a while, this starts popping up with every edit as well as when I try to save the session. I re-open the EDL and can continue working for several minutes before it starts popping up, again.

Ideas?

[Bob L]

Some plugin is asking for enormous amounts of space for saving its session data... the only thing you can do is find out which one and get it out of the session.

Bob L

[Dave Labrecque]

Some plugin is asking for enormous amounts of space for saving its session data... the only thing you can do is find out which one and get it out of the session.

Bob L

Thanks, Bob. Would 64-bit SAW likely have the same issue? Or would that be a way to avoid this?

[Bob L]

Depends on how the plugin stores its session data.... if id is the same in the 64 bit version, then there would be no difference.

The default method of saving plugin session data is for the host to query the plugin to send a block of memory data to the host whenever the session is saved... if the plugin begins storing all kinds of processing data and continues to send this ever-growing block of data to the host, then the session edls begin to grow and grow out of control. The plugins that save huge blocks of memory data that do it right would be plugins that would create their own disk file of the data and simply save the filename in the host... therefore the data can grow as large as it wants with no overhead to the host and session files.

Bob L