I have a pretty large patch that now freezes on load. I couldn't find other topics on it so I am asking this question.
The patch in question does have a 'until' object connected to a loadbang, but other than that I don't see what could be wrong. I am also 99% certain I wrote 'until 6', so it should not loop forever anyway.

Any way I can salvage this patch or find out what's wrong?

Maybe should you have

[loadbang}
|
[float 6]
|
[until]

instead? Anyway, you can execute pd with the -noloadbang option to edit your patch.

Many thanks! That did the trick. I was confused about the until object. I thought it functioned like delay where you can specify a number argument on creation.