Hi Chris,
If you switch the file names around, this is pretty much what happened to me -- my "Big 1" was overwritten by "Small 2." Fortunately, I noticed the problem quickly and had a recent backup. However, I was using Fin2004 -- I didn't realize the problem existed in previous versions. So I guess that answers your question about whether this problem has been fixed. [sigh]
Again, I think this might be related to the problem where when you make a change to a text block (or staff name, or pretty much any text element) in one open document, Finale goes and applies that change to *all* open documents. I suspect that, in this case, it's doing that with the *filename*. [sigh] I think this bug might be a byproduct of the feature which allows you to have plugins apply to "all open documents." (Maybe Coda could introduce a toggle to turn that off? I'd gladly give up that feature if it meant I didn't have to worry about changes in one document bleeding into all the other open documents.)
At any rate, these are both devastating bugs (or instances of the same bug -- whatever). I know this is difficult to reproduce and therefore difficult to fix, but boy does it ever need fixing. Meanwhile, it's just not safe to have more than one Finale file open at once. [sigh]
- Darcy
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On 03 May 2004, at 02:26 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I remember reading a while back about how Finale sometimes overwrites a file when more than one file is open. I seem to have been bitten by this bug, but I can't reconstruct what I did, as an hour passed before I noticed it. What I think happened is this:
I had a score ("Big 1") open I was working on.
I opened another file ("Small 2"), made a small edit, printed it, and closed it.
Went back to working on my (still open) "Big 1" score. The next time I saved it, it saved under the name and location of the OTHER file, overwriting it.
When I later went to open "Small 2", I got my completed "Big 1" score instead. The file saved under the name "Big 1" was the version I last saved just before I opened the "Small 2" score at around noon, and so was incomplete.
Small 2 is gone, gone, gone. When I look to see if I can undo what I did in the file called Small 1 (to go back to before the file was overwritten), the Undo lists are greyed out.
Is this comparable to what others have observed? I don't use Fin2004 much yet, so I don't know whether this bug is still around, but it is definitely there in FinMac2003.
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