Inkscape crashing over and over

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TL;DR: If you are having problems with a complex SVG crashing Inkscape, try cleaning up document before your next attempt at whatever you’re doing.

Longer version:

So I was trying to ungroup items in my svg, which contained a lot of groups (like 90+).

I selected all and ht ungroup. Instant internal error crash.

OK, I restarted. Opened the file, tried again. Crash.

OK restart, select one group. Ungroup. Crash.

OK I was about tired of this. I went in and selected one path, and tried to select same fill, then cut/paste to put it outside of the group. CRASH.

So, then I decided to try “clean up document”. Once I did that, i resaved (didnt seem to be necessary but you never know), and then selected everything and ungrouped. Success.

My svg had been edited and abused a number of times, lots of things cloned, uncloned, grouped, subgrouped, deleted, cut and pasted. There was probably some major junk in the svg, clean up seemed to solve my issues.

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Good suggestion for all the design software. :grinning:

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I haven’t had that error before, but thanks for the tip.

I crash Inkscape when I am in node edit mode and during a node move if I am not quite accurate on clicking the node and drag it, it glitches and crashes. I am not quite sure what is going on here.

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I’ve had that happen a number of times, too!

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