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Nickpanes

I am writing a book with scribus 1.6.2 which includes a lot of photos (277).  Although very slow it loads fine.  However I just bought a newer faster bigger PC. To my surprise the sla file will not load, causing it to crash towards the end of loading process.  I have increased the image cache size to 8gb and increased the pc virtual memory to an even larger number and, as I did not know any high level way to load without images I renamed the image file, so on loading it would not link to them. In both cases the crash, caused by a stack overflow continues to occur. Fortunately the older PC is still operational but I'm really keen to fix this. I am not a coder so perhaps limited in solutions that are too techy - any thoughts?

Nermander

Version 1.6.2 is the latest stable version, is it not?

I would download an run a program to test the memory. There are suites you can put on a USB drive and boot from that will be able run different memory test applications.

AdmFubar

What operating systems are you using? On the new machine did you just copy the sla and the images? or did you use collect for output on the old machine and copy that directory to the new  one?
Using Scribus 1.5.8 & 1.6.2, openSUSE 15.5
Advanced hobbyist

a.l.e

if the crash also occurs when you load the file without images, i fear that the .sla file is corrupted.

would you mind uploading it here or in the bug tracker (https://bugs.scribus.net)?
(only the sla, not the images)
in the bug tracker, you have the option to mark the upload as "private", then it's not world readable and only the developers will have access to it.

on top of it, sadly, the fact you bought a new computer, does not automatically mean that you will have access to more memory.
newer operating systems tend to eat up more memory and computer manufacturer often preload the computer with more and more crap software that keep your computer busy and well fed.
that could also be a reason for the lack of RAM.

on the other side, i'm not sure that adding virtual memory will be of a big help (in the contrary,  scribus might not play well with it...)