Open Dental Forum

I have an issue starting in OD 20.4 where there is a copy of Open Dental running in the background even after the user quits OD on the desktop.

The next time Open Dental is started, it apparently assumes the freshly started instance is a second instance, so my plugin won't run. I have to force-quit this background process and then restart OD for everything to work again.

OD version is 20.4.32...

Researching.

Would a production db that had been updated in the debugger cause this to happen?

I didn't see the behavior on the live db on my laptop yesterday but still see it happen repeatedly on my development machine. Odd. The only other difference is my live db machine is running MySQl 5.6 and the development machine 5.5 but I can't see how that would cause this behavior.

When in VS, there are two ways to terminate a program. You can click stop in VS, or you can close OD itself. Clicking stop in VS should work 100% of the time, so I'm guessing your original screenshot was closing OD itself.

I can confirm that clicking Stop in Visual Studio does NOT kill the process

This is happening on instances of OD that have been upgraded to 20.4.45

This prevents us from updating DLLs unless we remote into each computer (we have 26 offices in 4 States) and kill the process manually. This needs to be fixed.

I'm sure you already have some ideas, but this might be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6457611