Help - won't startup

[simoncn]

(10-11-2013 20:12)iangude Wrote:  Hi

I tried that - unfortunately the program just crashed this time after about 4 hours scanning, and took the log with it. The last time I looked it had reached something over 600k tracks. I'll try and catch it this time at some point, hopefully before it crashes again - I know roughly where it had got to in my library.

Thanks
Ian

The log is saved on disk as the file minimserver.log in the folder

/Users/<your-user-name>/Library/MinimServer

This Library folder is hidden by the Finder, To see it, you need to use "Go to folder" and type the path.

When you restart MinimServer, the log file will be overwritten, so you need to copy the log file to another location before doing a restart.

With over 600k tracks, you will need to increase the Java heap size. This isn't very easy to do on the Mac because of the way Java applications are launched on Mac OS X. The simplest approach would be to edit the Info.plist file in the MinimServer application package, as follows:

1) Stop MinimServer
2) Select the MinimServer application in Finder and click 'Show Package Contents'
3) Select the Info.plist file and select Open With > Other...
4) Select TextEdit from the list of applications and click Open
5) You should now see the Info.plist file open in TextEdit
6) Near the bottom of the file, just above the line <key>ClassPath</key>, add the following two lines:

<key>VMOptions</key>
<string>-Xmx256m</string>

7) Save the Info.plist file
8) Launch MinimServer

You might need to experiment with different values for the -Xmx option. You will probably find -Xmx256m (256 MB of heap memory) is sufficient to allow MinimServer to complete its startup. If not, increasing this to -Xmx512m (512 MB of heap memory) should definitely be enough.