Hi Andrew,
Yep, that's it.
FWIW, if you had had autosave *on*, you could have reverted to the most recently auto-saved version of the quartet score and it probably would have been okay. Autosave is safe in Fin2005a (but not Fin2004).
I don't use Autosave, but I do save every few minutes, before and after significant changes or completions. In this case I kept working on the quartet score, and when done I wanted to view the score in page view to set the title, composer etc. For some reason the view options to fit width and fit entire page on screen (I can't remember the exact menu titles) were greyed out and the key combos didn't work. Then I noticed that I couldn't select anything with mass mover and the title tool didn't work.
I don't think this is related to the file overwrite bug -- but I could be wrong. Anyway, I have seen this behavior, where Finale seems to "forget" which window is the frontmost one. You can usually solve this by using Expos� -- hit F10 to show all your Finale windows, then click the one you want. This seems to "remind" Finale which window is in front.
(On second thought, maybe it *is* related... ?)
At this point I saved (or, at least, I gave the key command; I don't know if it actually saved), then quit the program, hoping that starting up again will return functionality to the program.
Did you get a message prompting you to save changes when you quit? Or did Finale just quit without prompting you?
So what happened? When I restarted Finale and opened the quartet score, it was the *trio* score. The quartet score was gone and was now a complete duplicate of the trio score. This makes absolutely no sense!
Welcome to my world.
Fortunately this wasn't a critical arrangement, but I did lose a couple of hours. (I can hear it now: "save different versions as you work." I'll be doing that from now on!).
Autosave also helps, as I said. The "official" solution is to never have multiple files open simultaneously, which, for my work, is Not Acceptable.
The awful thing is, I don't know what exactly caused it, so I'm not too confident to do other work in Finale for fear of losing work.
I wish we could find the steps to reproduce the problem, because this is a big one. On the plus side, it happens very infrequently. On the minus side, that means it's almost impossible to track down and hardly anyone ever reports it to Coda.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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