diff --git a/src/Renderer/DrawBlock/BusWireUpdate.fs b/src/Renderer/DrawBlock/BusWireUpdate.fs
index 11d000c02..9feb55cd0 100644
--- a/src/Renderer/DrawBlock/BusWireUpdate.fs
+++ b/src/Renderer/DrawBlock/BusWireUpdate.fs
@@ -1154,10 +1154,15 @@ let update (msg : Msg) (model : Model) : Model*Cmd<Msg> =
         // reconstructed precisely
 
         /// check whether a laoded wires position matches a symbol vertex
-        let posMatchesVertex (pos:XYPos) (vertex: float*float) =
-            let epsilon = 0.00001
-            abs (pos.X - (fst vertex)) < epsilon &&
-            abs (pos.Y - (snd vertex)) < epsilon
+        /// If the vertices lits is empty the evrtex will be None, and not match
+        let posMatchesVertex (pos:XYPos) (vertexOpt: (float*float) option) =
+            match vertexOpt with
+            | None -> 
+                false
+            | Some vertex ->
+                let epsilon = 0.00001
+                abs (pos.X - (fst vertex)) < epsilon &&
+                abs (pos.Y - (snd vertex)) < epsilon
         
         // get the newly loaded wires
         let newWires =
@@ -1173,11 +1178,11 @@ let update (msg : Msg) (model : Model) : Model*Cmd<Msg> =
                     | true -> 
                         posMatchesVertex
                                 (Symbol.getInputPortLocation None model.Symbol inputId)
-                                (List.last conn.Vertices |> getVertex)
+                                (List.tryLast conn.Vertices |> Option.map getVertex)
                     | false ->
                         posMatchesVertex
                             (Symbol.getOutputPortLocation None model.Symbol outputId)
-                            (List.head conn.Vertices |> getVertex)
+                            (List.tryHead conn.Vertices |> Option.map getVertex)
                     |> (fun b ->
                         if b then
                             wire
diff --git a/src/Renderer/Interface/FilesIO.fs b/src/Renderer/Interface/FilesIO.fs
index 8036d5293..777f04cab 100644
--- a/src/Renderer/Interface/FilesIO.fs
+++ b/src/Renderer/Interface/FilesIO.fs
@@ -364,7 +364,6 @@ let readMemLines (addressWidth:int) (wordWidth: int) (lines: string array) =
     match Array.tryFind (function | Error _ -> true | _ -> false) parse with
     | None ->
         let defs = (Array.map (function |Ok x -> x | _ -> failwithf "What?") parse)
-        Array.iter (fun (a,b) -> printfn "a=%d, b=%d" a b) defs
         let repeats =
             Array.groupBy fst defs
             |> Array.filter (fun (num, vals) -> vals.Length > 1)
@@ -383,8 +382,8 @@ let readMemDefns (addressWidth:int) (wordWidth: int) (fPath: string) =
     printfn "starting defn read"
     tryReadFileSync fPath
     |> Result.bind (
-        (fun contents -> printfn "read file:\n contents={contents}"; contents)
-        >> String.splitRemoveEmptyEntries [|'\n';'\r'|]
+        //(fun contents -> printfn "read file:\n contents={contents}"; contents)
+        String.splitRemoveEmptyEntries [|'\n';'\r'|]
         >> readMemLines addressWidth wordWidth 
         >> (fun x -> printfn "read lines"; x)
         >> Result.map Map.ofArray)