On 3 May 2004 at 14:26, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
I remember reading a while back about how Finale sometimes overwrites> a file when more than one file is open.
This is clearly a bad bug in Finale, and needs to be fixed.
But I've also been the victim of mistakes like this that I made myself, overwriting the wrong file, and losing it entirely.
After one such incident of my own stupidity causing me to possibly lose a file, I purchased a program to give me delete protection. What it does is monitor all file deletions and instead of really letting the OS delete it, hides it from the OS. What it's actually doing is managing the free chain for the OS (i.e., the list of open sectors on the hard drive from which are chosen the locations for newly written file pages). The result of using such a program (and most of the big utility programs offer such a feature) is that I can never lose data once it's installed, unless I clear the deletion history.
I use a program called "Executive Undelete" (http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp). It's Windows-only, but works extremely well.
If the bug you describe happened to me in Finale, I'd be able to recover from it, as each version of the files that were saved would be available there in the undelete program.
This has saved my bacon so many times, I don't know how I ever worked without it.
-- David W. Fenton
Yes, Mac has a program from Aladdin that does the same thing. I didn't buy it, as I have only done the stupid save-over-another-file error once; after that I learned fast and well. That's about the only thing I have going for me; I learn from my mistakes. On the other hand, I manage to think up pretty creative ways to make NEW mistakes... 8-(
But I am quite sure that this was NOT pilot error. Definitely a program flaw. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
