I’m not ready to report this as a bug yet, want to hear from others.
Sometimes blender just quits after I hit the Purge button in the Ophaned Data view of the Outliner. The stuff DOES get deleted but that crash is a real problem. I think there is a specific situation but I have not figured it out yet.
This has been happening the last several versions (today I am using 2.77a)
How often is it happening? Is it randomly or you can reproduce it? Do you have blend file to share for other test it?
I purge quite often when i want to clear old images, textures, materials but i have never encounter a crash. Try to track it down by may be reducing your .blend.
thanks. I will do all that if I report it as a bug of course. I haven’t noticed a pattern, suppose I could bang away at it until something is repeatable, except that the purge happens anyway (I think because Blender may auto-purge upon startup or something like that) so I lose the state Blender was in that caused the crash. I will have to backup each test run before I try the purge, blegh.