Matlab crashes when saving fig

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John 2016-7-8

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评论： Nicholas George 2022-6-15

In many cases, when saving the figure, the matlab crashes. It happens several times a day. It wasn't the case before 2015 version. It's very frustrating!!!!

Can anyone help?

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Russ Park 2016-10-23

编辑：Walter Roberson 2016-10-23

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fpi2dDiff54_ 1.fig

Hi Walter, Thank you for your interest. Here is my short code section. However, my guess is that it will not reveal the nature of the problem. I have 32 GB of RAM, my Java heap is now set at 4096 MB, and my code below has scaled the original 500x8000 matrix to 500x800. The pause at the end of the loop was only added thinking I was expecting too much too fast. I was wrong.

I've attached two files, the first being the only fig file saved after a long time, but not longer than five minutes. The second file attached is an image of the second figure displayed while MATLAB says it is busy, trying to save.

All that to say, I'll bet the nature of the problem is related to the data more than my simple code steps shown below.

numNans = sum( sum( isnan(VmdiffMag4) ))
for i = 1:10
    figure('Position',[100 scrsz(4)/10 scrsz(3)/2 scrsz(4)/(8/7)]); 
    contourf(VmdiffMag4(:,1+(i-1)*800:800+(i-1)*800)); colorbar('FontSize',12);
    figStr = sprintf('./fpiConv Figs/fpi2dDiff54_%2d.fig',i);
    savefig(figStr);
    pause
end

Oh goodness, MATLAB just startled me by finishing the second save in the loop above, and then displaying the next image. That must have taken 15-20 minutes and now it is ensconced in trying to save the next image. So apparently, this is a time issue and not a crash problem. Nevertheless, there still must be a problem. My machine has a 6 core processor, lots of muscle and is usually fast with everything ... just not when saving to a fig file.

Walter Roberson 2016-10-24

It was 4762 seconds, about 1 1/3 hours :(

Russ Park 2016-10-24

Thank you for the corroboration.

I read, from another similar case, that certain graphics hardware required some kind of driver initialization. If this is true I'm not sure how to confirm and remediate.

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Walter Roberson 2016-10-24

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The cure for R2014b and later, for the case where you do not need the file to be openable with MATLAB R2014a or earlier, is

tic; savefig(gcf, '/tmp/testfig.fig', 'compact'); toc;

This will save in a fraction of a second.

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Russ Park 2016-10-24

Great. I'll give this a try and report back.

Russ Park 2016-10-24

Fantastic. That worked as promised. Thank you Walter!

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John 2016-11-14

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编辑：John 2016-11-15

That's not the issue.

When exam a figure (just plot or opened) and decide to save, then click on file->save or save as, the entire matlab crushes, very often. Many cases, the long time calculation just get lost along with the crush.

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John 2016-11-15

Where is the crush log? Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit. Problem occurs since 2014b or 2015a, it's now 2016a. Before it never had this problem. This is my 15th year of Matlab.

Walter Roberson 2016-11-15

编辑：Walter Roberson 2016-11-15

What kind of object are you requesting to save as? .fig? jpg? Or do you not get far enough to be given a choice?

I just tested in R2016a on a Windows 8 system and had no problem saving to fig or jpg.

Unfortunately I do not have a Windows 7 license available so I cannot test in Windows 7.

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Chad 2017-9-28

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I ran into this thread and thought it was worth an update: I was struggling to understand why a figure I could see was not a figure I could save. I also was unable to file->saveas-> png, but I was able to save as a .fig. The issue was in the difference between PaperPosition and Position figure properties:

hf = figure;
paperSize=[50,50,1260,820];
printSize=[0 0 16 9];
hf.Position = paperSize; 
hf.PaperPosition = printSize;
plot(1,1)
saveas(gcf, 'demo.fig')
saveas(gcf, 'demo.png')
hf = figure;
hf.PaperPosition = paperSize; %this is wrong
plot(1,1)
saveas(gcf, 'demo2.fig');
saveas(gcf, 'demo2.png'); %this line fails

If I accidentally put paperSize into PaperPosition, the function crashes. I imagine this is what a lot of the people on the thread are actually dealing with, but a large amount of data may also cause a crash.