On 3 May 2004 at 14:40, Darcy James Argue wrote: > 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.)
I don't know how the Mac version handles the temp files it uses during editing, but my understanding is that on the Windows version, it doesn't keep a separate tmp file for each open notation file, but instead has a number of pooled files with different kinds of data in them. If the mapping of data within those pooled files via pointers to the original files gets mixed up, you'd end up with the wrong data saved into the wrong files. If I remember Coda's explanation for this (back in the days when Randy Stokes was still an active participant on the list), it was that this was implemented this way to make clip files and pasting from one file to another really easy (if it's all stored in the same file, you only have to change the pointers to get it into another file, rather than writing the actual data pages). I suspect I misinterpreted this explanation, as it seemed to me to put the cart before the horse (doesn't it slow down the saving of non-copied files?). One other thing: I always have the backup feature turned on (when you save, it doesn't overwrite the previous version, but changes its name to *.BAK), but that only helps if you discover the problem before a second save. But it has saved me once or twice, when I was able to revert to the BAK version when I'd overwritten something by mistake myself. I've never had this bug happen to me, but I have seen cases where the data display in different documents windows did not match the file names. In that case, I closed the ones where it was correct, and abandoned the changes in the ones that were wrong, and was able to get things to work. This was back in the days of WinFin97, and has still happened to me in WinFin2K3. It's one of the reasons I frequently clean out my temp directory, because I think that tends to aggravate the problem. -- 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
