I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a particular file: "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea what this means much less how I did it. Whenever it happens I lose many automation moves and some aliases. Any idea what this is all about?

On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:37 AM, strobe_tallbot wrote: > I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a > particular file: > "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea > what this means > much less how I did it. Whenever it happens I lose many automation > moves and some > aliases. Any idea what this is all about? LOL! I am definitely not laughing at you, or your problem, as I know you are probably frustrated (and I sympathize).... but this error message is off the hook!!!! Was it really programmed into Logic that way? "Tell Emagic how you did this" !!!! LOL! I think that is should say: "Please contact Emagic and WE will tell you how WE did this to YOU!" And what is this "Circular Structure" anyhow??? Chris M.

At 06:30 PM 03/02/2004, you wrote: >On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:37 AM, strobe_tallbot wrote: > > > I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a > > particular file: > > "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea > > what this means > > much less how I did it. This has shown up intermittently for years, and to my knowledge we've yet to hear what it really means!

>> I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a >> particular file: >> "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea >> what this means much less how I did it. > > This has shown up intermittently for years, and to my knowledge we've yet > to hear what it really means! I've also had this before when attempting to copy automation data betweeen two versions of a song by loading them both up. Were you doing anything similar Strobe? As for the error message it's quite hideous. Sounds to me like the developers have been trying to trace a bug and placed this message in there as attempt to capture the conditions which spark it off. A very unprofessionl approach in my opinion. Sounds like thier internal data structures are pointing back to themselves when they shouldn't be. To be honest Logic seems full of these little quirks, the whole application appears to be suffering from a crumbling software architecture and looks like its needs a re-write. I'm kind of hoping Apple recongnise this too... but always economics will decide.

> On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:37 AM, strobe_tallbot wrote: > >> I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a >> particular file: >> "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea >> what this means >> much less how I did it. Whenever it happens I lose many automation >> moves and some >> aliases. Any idea what this is all about? There has been posting about this error for ages. I get this error sometimes when I try copy dragging multiple midi events in the matrix window... Its pretty serious, very annoying, emagic knows about it for months but apparently left LAP6 for what it is and they seem to be focusing only on the upcoming LAP7... Very frustrating indeed :-( Michel

> > I keep getting the following dialogue in Logic while working on a > > particular file: > > "Circular Structure! Tell Emagic how you did this". I have know idea > > what this means much less how I did it. > > This has shown up intermittently for years, and to my knowledge we've yet > to hear what it really means! This is Emagic doing the right thing. It is no doubt a bug that has haunted them for some time and due to its elusiveness has not been found. Therefore they have written into the Logic code the request that you sent them info on how you got this bug. This is debugging 101 and we should be happy Emagic are doing this. Now it is up to us to precisely tell them how we got this result. It may not hurt to not only tell them how we got the result but also email them the song you are working on that produced this. Do not email it here. I do not know for sure where it should go but support@... may be a good bet. Bob Vandiver