Newest version of Psychopy runs fine but hangs at the end

[Mike_Dixon]

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OS Mac. Sonoma 14.4.1:
PsychoPy version (latest):

newest version of Psychopy runs fine but hangs at the end. It seems to take about 2 or three minutes before I can make edits to the program.

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
Include pasted full error message if possible. “That didn’t work” is not enough information.

[wakecarter]

Go into Experiment Settings/Data and change the logging level to Error.

[andrewildman]

Was just about to post about this issue (from memory I think it started happening in the early 2023 releases)

I’ve tried setting logging level to error but it didn’t seem to affect the behaviour - just posted a thread with a bit more detail if it helps:

PsychoPy hangs after running complex experiments

I’ve noticed over the last couple of years that PsychoPy lags for long periods of time when exiting complex experiments. This seems to specifically affect experiments in which component parameters are set to update every frame (e.g., with “Each frame” code components controlling these parameters), and the time period of the lag appears to correlate with the amount of frame-by-frame updates. In these cases PsychoPy becomes non-responsive for several minutes upon exiting, then lots of information …