I guess part of the problem for me is that I often use Finale to open up MIDI files (just to get a rough sketch of what's going on in the song), or I open up older files just to listen with HP. They are opened as "Untitled" Finale files and always request a filename when Autosave is attempted (whether playback is on, the program is in the background, or whatever). I don't want to give names to *these* files, or even to save them at all. This filename request causes lots of problems with both Finale's operation (most notably when concurrent with playback) and the operation of other programs to some extent.
About the "saving while not frontmost," I think that should be scrapped. In <2k3, it would just delay the autosave until the program is in the foreground again, and I don't see any problem with that. It doesn't take CPU time away from other programs, which is a plus. -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darcy James Argue > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug > > > > On 14 Mar 2004, at 04:28 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have > >> auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled > >> document, Finale will prompt you to name it and specify a save > >> location. > > [snip] > > > > I have noticed this as well. I have is set to auto-save every 15 > > minutes, > > and that's what it will do, every 15 minutes. Even if it's playing > > back it > > will try to save, which will crash the program. Even if > it's not the > > frontmost application it'll try to save. > > > > MacFin2k3 always waited until the program was frontmost and "idle" > > before > > attempting to auto-save. MacFin2k4 isn't doing this, I suppose, > > because OSX > > has more advanced mutitasking capabilities and will allow many more > > things > > to be attempted at once than OS9 did. Despite this, the autosave > > needs to > > be reprogrammed to fix this blatant bug. > > > > Please, everyone, email macsupport about this one. > > Just to be clear -- I *do* think that having the autosave work even > when Finale is in the background is a good feature. Normally, this > doesn't cause any problems. I also think that having Finale > prompt you > to name any unnamed documents when autosaving is a good idea -- after > all, this is how it has always worked. I even think having > Finale save > during playback is fine, provided it can be done without interrupting > playback or causing the program to hang or crash. > > The only problem here is that there's some sort of bug in the > autosave > which sometimes (okay, frequently) causes Fin2004 to hang. I > definitely want that bug fixed, but not at the expense of disabling > background autosaves. That's a feature I'd like to keep. I > just want > the hanging bug fixed. > > - Darcy > > ----- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn NY > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
