Muse Crash - after pages "optimizing assets" and "exported" During Publish

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The following was causing me problems for about a week or so. I continued to pursue it with the following "Crash" symptoms until waking this morning with perhaps a resolution to the inconsistent problem. It is so simple I would probably be wise just to ignor giving you an answer to save face. But, sometimes you just must standup and take it ... so don't be too hard on me.
ANSWER TO MY CRASH PROBLEM: When publishing you have in the option menu to either upload all changes or just upload those things that have changed from the last update. With over 2,000 images on my site and 18 pages I decided, until I had a major upgrade, to take the option to upload only changed items of my site. This saves a lot of time. In thinking about it it came to me "who is then deciding what is "change" and what conditions apply and are covered by the logic of the Muse program". What is considered an error to crash the program! So I chose the option to upload all items and this seemed to fix the problem. I think it has as it crashed right after it had uploaded the "changed" items but, never published them (because of an error somewhere in the uploads). My suggestion to the program writers is whatever sensed the error should have a dialogue box that says to rerun the program using "upload all items". Love this program! Howard Lower of Lower Photography and Studio in Rochester, MN.
Muse Crash right after pages are exported during publish with no other indication of a problem. I have been fighting this problem for many days now.
I thought I had it fixed last night as it worked fine after deleting the Microsoft Outlook plugin called Acrobat PDFmaker Office com Addin as the descriptions of the problems it caused others with Adobe programs sounded exactly what I was see with Muse.
The only Change I see in Muse today is that during "Publish", and the information as it runs is Muse first "optimizing assets", them it Export Desktop page and gets to 16 of 18 then Muse crashes without any indication or message for the problem.
Could it be a problem with "Business Catalyst" as that is what "Publish" is exporting to? Who can check out to see what is happening from exporting assets to Business Catalyst? It appears that the one line in the specification box does not have to have any information put into it regarding the directory location as it already has the business Catalyst name or reference site in it. Is this correct?
That is all I need and the only thing I can say is  .... HELP! Muse is the perfect program for me and my business and now it has let me down so that I can not make changes to what I would consider a great website at http://www.lowerphotography.com if I could only make needed changes.
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Answer 1

Well, after 20 hours of work and rebuilding most of my Muse website I finally was able to upload by site again.
Here was my problems per above and the last 20 hours. When publishing the site it does the following: Optimize assets, exportin desktip page 1 thru 19, Fining export HTML files then uploading images which I have 2208 on this site plus other stuff uploaded.
I can not answer why it now works as "normally"it would het error #2015 uring optimizing assets wich is an invalid bitmap data error and failed at only 9% publish process then got a 1125 index 0 is out of range0 at publish 20% complete.
I did rewrite most of the pages and made minor changes to all of them thinking that would force all pages to be uploaded as I also took option to upload all pages instead of just those that changes. All 2008 images were reloaded onto the pages by another hint I read on how to delete all thumbnails and thus the files is to select all and press delete and it will leave one as required. Then the one left could be deleted by itself. Thanks for whoever asked the question and who answered it. This saved me a lot of time.
Thanks to all that have taken the time to help me out. Muse is a great program but sometimes you don't have any idea if it is working at something so I found myself looking at the computer busy light to see if Muse was taking a lot of cycles. It would help to have a wider use of the cursor busy indicator as sometimes the system seemed like it was hung up but it was not.
Thanks guys!
Again, after hours of calmness and yes I also prayed over this problem and this last time it worked. So stay calm, and keep working at it and God helping doesn't hurt either. I can not explain it otherwise.