Re: Computer dying after I close a Party skin
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Do you have a big notes file? Whenever Party (or a skin) shuts down, it writes the updated notes file back to disk. If you have a huge one (i.e., multi-megabyte), it can take forever and chew up all your system resources doing it.
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Exactly. It's the price of being a data miner. Two ways to prove to yourself it's the problem:
1. Remove the notes.txt file from the directory before you start up the client. The problem will go away.
2. Start the client with the big notes.txt file but shut it down quickly, say within a minute. The delay will not occur because you didn't give it sufficient time to read the whole file in. It won't write the file back because it doesn't have the whole thing. Note that any player notes you made in that minute are lost.
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