[Edit] I solved this by fiddling about. Se solutions at the bottom. Will leave post as is, incase it can be of help to someone else.
Visual Preview and Data Inspector are behaving very erratically on my computer in Form 2025.0. Bordering on making the software unusable.
Some of my issues:
One specific to a workspace
- Today Form refuses to show the results from inspectors inside Custom Transformers, it will only show those in Main. This worked fine yesterday. Only difference is a computer restart.
This issue prevails if I open the workspace in 2024.2. I created a new empty workspace and got the previews working from within Custom Tranformers.
The issue below goes for all workspaces.
- Form is behaving like a raging toddler when I try to turn on Enable Feature Chaching. I try to get it to work with me by clicking the setting over and over and over again, but it just resets and does noting each time I press run. Then suddenly it complies without me understanding how that happened.
There is simply no logic that I can see to the above.
Is this a bugg or is there some hidden setting somewhere that I am unaware of? Is it possible to do a “hard reset” somehow and see if that solves my issues? In previous versions Visual Prewiew has just worked without me having a second thought about it.
I am on a Silicon Mac and have tried both the Arm and Intel versions of the software.
[Update: I solved issue no 1]
I uninstalled everything per the instructions below and then reinstalled 2025.0:
https://support.safe.com/hc/en-us/articles/25407475633421-How-to-Uninstall-FME-on-macOS
I might have found the solution to the Enable Feature Cache reseting. I have been using cmd-r to run workspaces since forever, but apparently this disables feature caching!
Reason I use cmd-r is because I haven’t had function keys on my keyboards for the last 10+ years.
[Update: I solved issue 2]
Yesterday I was setting up some Custom Transformers to be run Grouped By, and this knocked out the Inspectors therein. I haven’t checked the finer adjustments, but now I know where to dig.
