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]
As a matter of fact, that was EXACTLY what I changed: one letter in the title (a client had just emailed and asked for the change, "Women's World" to "Woman's World". Hope he doesn't ask for any more changes!
I will write to MakeMusic about this.
Thanks.
Christopher
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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