On 9 Jun 2004 at 7:56, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 9:43 PM -0400 6/08/04, David W. Fenton wrote: > >On 8 Jun 2004 at 21:31, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > > > >> At 8:13 PM -0400 6/08/04, 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. > >> > >> I'm not convinced that this will help. After all, if the wrong > >> file is overwritten when it is saved, the backup will be > >> overwritten, too, won't it? I don't use this feature for that > >> reason. The only thing it seems to save ME from is hard-drive > >> failure in the middle of a session, if I set the backup to occur > >> on another drive. I drag my documents folder over to my other > >> drive daily. > > > >It won't save the new version, but at least you won't lose the *old* > >version, just the changes since your last save. > > > >Think of it this way (using Windows file naming conventions, of > >course): > > > >You are working on GrandSymphony.MUS. > > > >You work on it for a while, and then you save it. > > > >The previous version is renamed GrandSymphony.BAK and the new version > >is saved as GrandSymphony.MUS. > > > >GrandSymphony.BAK will still be the version that you opened (or the > >last time you saved it after opening it), so if GrandSymphony.MUS > >ends up having the contents of some other file you had open, you have > >lost only the changes since the last time GrandSymphony.BAK was > >saved. > > But doesn't Autosave save a .bak file, too? That means that if you > don't notice that things have gone wrong for five minutes or more, > then GrandSymphony.BAK will ALSO have the wrong contents.
Nope. Autosave does not do the BAK file. Only a real SAVE does that. -- 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
