On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just looked back at a couple of posts one from Chuck and one from Mark. Chuck mentioned that his system seemed to start to slow down after a long Finale session and that is when the icon for the selected tool in the tool palette turns into the Finale icon. (I've had this happen to me too.) Mark had a similar thing happening with icons appearing incorrectly....with the wrong graphic and then a garbled graphic. His system was also in the state where it seemed that memory was "tight" as he put it.
If that's what you got from my post, I may not have been clear.
First of all, I didn't suggest that this has anything at all with Finale. I actually haven't used Finale very much over the past few months, and when I do use it, I tend to use it alone -- ie, not simultaneous with many other applications -- and then close it when I'm done.
As for my comment that memory seemed "tight", that was my speculation (perhaps incorrect) based on the symptoms I described -- ie, messed up icons and, later, things that wouldn't open or display at all. I don't have a deep understanding of how computers work, but from my vague layman experience over the years I have the general impression that things like that happen when memory is running low. But I don't really know.
I definitely did not mean to suggest that memory was tight because I had a lot of applications running. As I mentioned, my usual habit is to close down applications when I'm not using them, so I'm rarely taxing the memory in that way. I was responding to your comment about Safari "leaking" memory, thinking that my system shows symptoms which are possibly caused by low memory (eg, icons, etc) even though I *don't* have the obvious causes of low memory (ie, lots of applications open).
By the way, I just thought of something else that may or may not related. A while back I started using "disk images" as another way of organizing archived files. Maybe it's just my quirky filing preferences, but I like having some files packed away in a separate container where they don't show up separately on my hard drive but can still be easily accessed by opening the dmg file. I'm not sure what exactly these disk images do under the hood, but maybe that's related to a memory problem. I haven't paid attention enough to see if my symptoms are correlated to whether I have a disk image open.
mdl
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