On 8 Jun 2004 at 20:13, Darcy James Argue wrote: > The other thing to watch out for is Finale changing the name of your > file, causing it to overwrite an existing file, without telling you. > This bug is relatively rare, but three people on the list have already > fallen prey to it, and boy does it suck when it happens to you. Make > sure you turn on "Make Backups When Saving Files." You'll need it.
Sorry to reply again, but this seems to me to be something that's in the cross-platform code of Finale, as the same problem exists in the Windows version. It has happened so infrequently to me that I can't explain when or how, but this is pre-Finale 2004, which I don't use. There is also an ongoing problem with the multi-document interface implementation (I experienced this in WinFin97, too), where the first window opened does not have its own minimize/mediumize/close buttons in the corner of the child window when a second window is opened. That is, there shouldn't be a set of the three controls in the upper right until you open a second document, but when that is the case, they should appear. And they don't always do so. And sometimes, you cannot close that document by any means, except closing Finale. Sometimes you can close it with Ctrl-W but not via File | Close. This won't translate directly on the Mac, as the MDI doesn't really exist there, but perhaps this is a set of related issues, having to do with the way temporary files are used, and the way the connections between the display in the application windows is correlated with the underlying temp data. -- 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
