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When we run webinator against a website it is processing about 10000 files, and then it exits with return code "-1073741819". Can you tell me what this means?
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That sounds like the license limit for the free version.
What does gw output just before quitting? Also check gw.log.

Don't know where that return would come from. It should pretty much always exit with either 1 or 0. What's your version? gw -version
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Version is

Webinator WWW Site Indexer Version 2.56 (Internal)
Copyright(c) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000 Thunderstone EPI Inc.
Release: 20010613

It processes somewhat more than 10000 files. We capture the output from gw.exe into our own log file. It was doing this when it failed

10267/93411
10267/93412
10267/93413
http://askmetest.creo.com/TechPlanet/ou ... v/drum.htm
10267/93413
10268/93413
10268/93413
10268/93414
10268/93415
10268/93416
10268/93416
10268/93417
10268/93418
10268/93419
10268/93420
10268/93421
10268/93422
10268/93423
10268/93423
10268/93423
10268/93424
10268/93424
10268/93424
10268/93425

... and then it exits with return code "-1073741819
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That exit code suggests it ran into an internal error. You should probably upgrade to the newer Webinator with scripted crawler.
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Monitor.log has many entries like this. Could that cause a crawl to fail?

009 Feb 26 18:34:38 Can't rename license file F:\APPLIC~1\AskMe\ASKMEE~1\external\THUNDE~1\Morph3/license.new to F:\APPLIC~1\AskMe\ASKMEE~1\external\THUNDE~1\Morph3/license.key: Permission denied
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Highly unlikely. But you should fix your permission problem.

You could try running gw in chunks. Use -p5000 -noindex or similar and run the command enough times to get everything. Then run with -index .
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So in order to run the command enough times would we need to estimate the number of pages to be indexed, run it sufficient times to index that many in chunks of 5000 or so, and then run it one final time without the -p switch to catch any remaining pages?
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Something like that. Or you could watch the output of gw and run it until it doesn't do any pages. In any event it's an empirical hack that assumes the problem is related to number of pages and not something about the page itself.
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