Touch hanging on start - how to force Editor/Non Play mode?

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Hi,

suddenly one of the two touch processes I start for my project hangs on start - it’s set to open in Perform mode and to execute some startup scripts (Execute dats).

Even reverting to older files exhibits the same behavior. I’ve also updated to the latest built to see if something got fixed, same behavior.

At this point I would like not to lose six months of work… and be able to somehow open the file with it not running any startup script and not executing anything so I can see where it’s hanging by running things one by one - there used to be an env var in the old days that told it to do just that, but I can’t find it in the docs.

Can someone tell me if that variable still exists, it was something like “NO_STARTUP_SCRIPTS” or something like that…

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Don’t recall a way to block start scripts . I usually externalize them to a py file , which makes it easy to change them in case they trigger startup crashes

But you can rename your toe to CrashAutoSave.toe and it will open without cooking.

Also check Using WinDbg to Debug Crashes - Derivative

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veeeeeery usefull trick @Achim!!! Thx