Hi Noel,
I do appreciate your input, but I'm quite sure that's not the problem. This is definitely a Coda issue. Others *have* reproduced the problem, including Coda, and *I* have reproduced the problem on multiple machines -- it's definitely not machine-specific. It's true that some on the list haven't (yet) been able to reproduce the problem, but that's only because so far, no one can pin down the exact cause. But it's definitely a Coda issue. There are no similar problems on any of my machines with any other applications. Just Finale.
FWIW, on a Mac, there are no "third party drivers" for hard drives. Everything is OS-level. And I do regular OS X disk maintenance (of course).
I do appreciate the effort, of course, but I'm afraid the hard drive drivers idea is a dead end.
- Darcy
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On 04 Jul, 2004, at 09:52 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
The Soprano Sax staff now shows "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the Full Staff Name, and "Copyright � 2001 Darcy James Argue" as the abbreviated staff name.
The Alto Sax staff now shows "Copyright � 2001 Darcy James Argue" as the full staff name, and "Bass" as the abbreviated staff name.
There is nothing in the Undo/Redo list.
I have not entered the email address that appears above in any Finale document, ever. Finale must be getting it from the OS X Address Book or something. I've never seen this before.
OK. I admit that I am graspiong at straws here, but this suggests to me that a low level error in the read routine of the HDD driver, causing in some circumstances, the read routine to read mis-read the file. This might account for the difficulty others have had in reproducing the problem, because without the specific hardware and software, it is going to be impossible to find the problem.
If it were me, immediately after backing up all data files, and performing disk maintenance (Mac equivalent of defrag &c., if need be), I'd make sure all drivers for the system, including drivers from third party vendors, were up to date.
On the surface, this has little to do with the current string, but after installing a scanner, I went through a period where I had a lot of problems with bits of the system, not necessarily related to the scanner. The system was useable, it just needed to be rebooted, after doing a number of scans (I don't remember now exactly how man, perhaps a dozen or dozen and a half, but that's not the important bit). Nothing I did seemed to help, until one day, looking for something else, I stumbled across an updated set of drivers for the scanner. Installed 'em, and all my problems went away. Or all, except the typgraphical erorrs, anyway.
ns
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