Joe Lilli provides a quick tip if you ever have After Effects freeze on you and is unresponsive, showing how you can both have the benefit of using a “Force Quit” and saving the file that you were working on by using a Terminal Command.
This is a Quick Tip showing you how to save your work when After Effects freezes up on you without force quitting and losing any unsaved data
Typically autosave and incrementally saving your file while working are simply things that you should be employing anyway, however, if you find yourself in a position where you need to force quite a frozen AE, you should check out this short Quick tip.
Suzanne Powell
Aw man – too bad there isn’t a PC solve. But in any event this should help Mac users.
DinoMFX
The corresponding command line for windows would be TASKKILL /PID #### while the #’s stand for the PID number your ae.exe process has. You can look the number up in your task manager (you probably have to enable it in the view tab first).
I don’t know if it has the same effect as in the tutorial, it could be that it only prompts you to save the project before quitting though.
I don’t know what the -SEGV stands for. If I knew, I perhaps could find the corresponding code for it in windows.