Creating a Windows crash dump (swift hanging)

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External links to 3rd party articles! :::

If you encounter swift hanging and NOT responding anymore you could create a crashdump and make this available for the swift team.

Crash dump files

• Here it is described how to do that, easy and simple: "look for task manager"

  • see https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/758511
  • or https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/debugger/2009/12/30/what-is-a-dump-and-how-do-i-create-one/

• as the dmp file is quite big please zip it (rar it, whatever) and upload it to your shared drive (like Google drive, ...) and send us the link

• Let us know you have that files: https://discord.gg/R7Atd9A (DISCORD, 3rd party)

Hints

Hanging can have multiple reasons

• swift has opened a model window but you do not see this window because it has opened up on a different screen.
• see https://www.technipages.com/bring-off-screen-window-back-onto-screen