On 8 Jun 2004 at 20:13, Darcy James Argue wrote: > It seems like most of the > crashes and hangs I have are autosave-related. I don't know if it's > *quite* worth turning it off -- because then you might accidentally > lose hours of work instead of just five minutes or less -- but it is > extremely frustrating. If you can trust yourself to remember to save > manually every five minutes or so, by all means turn it off.
You don't need to save every five minutes, just after any significant amount of work. The frequency of any backup routine should be based on the determination of how much time it would take to recreate what is lost, rather than on a raw interval. If I've just gone through the process of formatting an entire file for printing, before sending it to the printer, I save it manually. Then if something goes wrong, I'm OK. I do the same before I do any major process, like moving large blocks of measures from one place to another. This kind of preventive saving usually does the job. Of course, I had problems recently that caused me to switch on AutoSave, but it's so damned annoying (though it appears bug-free on WinFin2K3) that I don't know why I don't turn it off -- I got along without it for years and years and never had any major loss of work. -- 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
