On 6 Jul 2004 at 14:28, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I could disable plugins for troubleshooting purposes, but that would > make it almost impossible to get actual work done, and I would have to > run Finale for a very long time to determine with any certainty > whether doing this actually helped. As I said, since installing the > processor upgrade, my Finale crashes come far less frequently (while I > did have two Finale crashes yesterday, I'm hoping those are now the > exception, not the rule).
For diagnosis, I think it's a must. If it solves the problem, it will give the Finale programming team a lead to follow. I'm also concerned about your report that you have iKeys loaded all the time. Given the way it interacts (by design) with programs, it seems to me to be a likely culprit for causing problems. Obviously, like plugins, it's something you can't really work without, but for troubleshooting purposes, you really need to try running Finale without it and see if the bug persists. The suggestion to run Finale alone is not really practical, of course, but if running only Finale leads to stability, then you know that the instability is caused by some interaction with some other process. Of course, the problem with modern OS's is that there are so many services and processes running that you don't actually explicitly request that it's hard to say when you're actually running Finale by itself. I have see problems with servers when software patches were applied to them that have caused file corruption for client workstations. It could be any number of things that can cause the problem, but I'd be thinking about whether or not you have any software running that mucks about in the interface between the OS and the file system, such as a 3rd-party undelete program. In short, I wouldn't at all be surprised if there's a connection between your instability and the file overwrite bugs. -- 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
