Closing Reaper with script running data bug? Solved - please ignore - my fault.

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I'm having issues with saving data when Reaper is closed and my script running.

The atexit function is being called - but when my script goes to save the data it seems all the data has already been reset to default (deleted). So the save routine saves none of the data and overwrites any good data previously saved.

This doesn't happen when closing the script window manually - which should be running the same atexit routines - so I'm guessing at this stage that Reaper is clearing the script data before the save routines are run when closing Reaper with the script running.

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Hmmm. Ok - my first basic test to check if this is in fact was occurring did not yield the results I expected.

I shall revisit my save routines and test further - so for the moment please ignore this thread.

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A little further testing...

It seems that maybe Reaper is unloading the tracks as my save routine runs - and this may suggest data is being removed as the script saves...

My test so far is that at the beginning of the atexit routine I'm writing to a test file certain table counts, and then again after the save routine...

My test file reads:

---before save routine is run
[strips]3
[snapshots]3
[tracks]1
---after save routine is run
[strips]1
[snapshots]1
[tracks]0
---reaper exits

at this point my save data has been reduced to a single table of strip data written (the MASTER channel data).

I'm pretty sure my save routines are not deleting this data - otherwise in normal use - I'd be losing data...

Might there actually be a problem here??

EDIT:

Added more tracks - same results when quitting Reaper:

[strips]7
[snapshots]7
[tracks]6
--after
[strips]1
[snapshots]1
[tracks]0

but when closing my script manually (Reaper stays open)

[strips]7
[snapshots]7
[tracks]6
[strips]7
[snapshots]7
[tracks]6

- which is what it should be...

Any thoughts...? Is there any way of preventing Reaper unloading data until all scripts are terminated completely?

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Aah - the wonders of a good sleep.

I think I've sussed it. When Reaper closes - it deletes all the tracks before closing the scripts.

When saving my script does a clean up - so does actually delete data if it cannot find the track the data is associated with.

So it's my fault - and if I don't run the cleanup on a quit save - then we should be all good (I hope - this all came to me whilst trying to get to sleep last night - but I've not yet looked to the code to confirm)...

So please ignore this thread and a thousand apologies for not realizing what's going on in my code (again!) !!