Resolved but Curious: Old version (2.48) is suddenly crashing when joining meshes

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Hello everyone!

I use Blender to make graphgan patterns, which means I have a set number of faces [Edit: up to 14,400]. Each color is its own object, so I frequently separate faces and rejoin them to another object right away. I’m now at the point where I only do this a few faces at a time. There were no problems when I created the file several days ago (and in similar files over the past couple of years), but starting yesterday (4/25/17) it would crash after a few rounds of separate-join. I tried restarting the computer; closing out all other programs; searching online for other people with a similar problem; removing excess vertices (there were almost none); removing all other scenes; deleting extraneous objects; turning off the computer for several hours; and then dusting it out. It now crashes after the first separate-join combo.

I’m sure there must be a simple fix, I believe I had this same problem a long time ago, I simply don’t remember how I fixed/got around it.

Thank you! :slight_smile:

EDIT: So I replied below with my eventual solution, if there are any possible explanations for the whole event, I’d be happy to hear about them.

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try reducing the undo limits in the user preferences. seeing how your using a stone age blender version, you must have a stone age computer with crazy small ram.

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Thank you, Daedalus, but I must defend my computer’s honor: In terms of tech, yes, my computer is fairly old at 3 years; however, I have a reasonable 8 gb ram. I do have a somewhat newer blender at 2.68, but the selection tool I need is much less convenient (I want to sweep up faces with one pass, not circle them). If the latest version doesn’t have a B-B (or similarly quick) hotkey, I’ll keep my sharp rocks :slight_smile:

Back to the problem at hand, I think the meshes just got corrupted somehow. I imported a new mesh, used the old ones as a template, and so far, rapidly cutting up/rejoining the new one hasn’t given me any problems.

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Isn’t that what the C key does in current versions?