It does not crash Finale2003.r2 on my machine. (Windows XP) Richard Yates
----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: [Finale] File Crashes My Finale Reliably > Finale is driving me crazy these days, what with blank notation and > layer 2 spacing problems, and now I've got a file that reliably > crashes when you jump to a particular measure. > > The file is here: > > http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Midi/Hoffmeister4_C.zip > > (my ISP doesn't know that MUS files are binary, so I changed the > extension to ZIP so that it doesn't display it -- when you've > downloaded, just change the extension from ZIP to MUS) > > Here's how to produce the error: > > 1. open the file in scroll view. > > 2. using the measure number at bottom, type in measure 452. > > When I hit ENTER to navigate to that measure, Finale 2003 for Windows > crashes. > > It's completely reliable. Anytime m. 452 is painted onscreen as the > leftmost measure, Finale crashes. > > I've deleted the offending measure and recreated it. > > I've deleted the measure before and recreated it. > > I've run data checks on the file. > > I've saved as ETF and opened the ETF, and the two steps above produce > exactly the same crash in the freshly opened ETF. > > If anyone else has WinFin2K3 and can try the file, I'd like to know > if it crashes or not. If it doesn't, then it's something wrong with > my system. If it does, then it's something wrong with Finale. > > I'd also be interested if it crashes on other versions of Finale. > > I don't normally do 3-movement works in a single file, but I figured > that was a limitation of Finale from 10 years ago, back when one > movement alone was a big piece for Finale. > > I never had any problems like this until this piece got large (it's > still only 606 measures, which doesn't seem that big to me!), and > then I had lots of problems (I lost some data in it at one point, but > thought that had been fixed. > > The other annoying thing I've discovered is that an explicit save > doesn't really write to disk when you do it -- numerous times I've > lost data that I put in *before* an explicit forced save when a crash > happened a few minutes after I saved. > > Needless to say, my confidence in Finale is rather greatly shaken > here. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton > David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
