On 3 May 2005 at 8:21, Christopher Smith wrote: > On May 3, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > > As far as I understand the file overwrite bug has nothing to do with > > rebooting, it is a bug in Finale. > > As I had mentioned, though, the bug seems to occur when Finale has > been open and running for a long time, which might be the result of > some sort of build-up that can be avoided by rebooting (or quitting > and re-launching Finale at a minimum.) . . .
Quitting and restarting Finale is not a "reboot," which is a term reserved for the operating system. > . . . I agree that it is a bug in > Finale, the question is what to do to avoid it until it can be hunted > down by the friendly folks at MakeMusic. There is one possibility of a bug in the OS that could lead to a problem, and that's if Finale has any memory leaks that persist after it's closed. If the OS is not completely releasing Finale's memory after Finale is closed, or if it allocates more memory to Finale after a restart, then the OS has a problem. In old (and long obsolete) versions of Windows (Win95, Win98, WinME), there was a limitation on certain resources that could cause the OS to become unstable after a certain time if programs did not clean up these resources appropriately. But nobody in their right mind would leave Win9x running full-time without daily reboots, so the problem only happened with people who were treating Win9x as though it was a modern operating system, and who had software that had *bad* memory leaks (it took quite a bit of bad behavior on the part of a program to hit the limits). > Whether it is the result of my avoidance of editing Text blocks, or my > new habit of occasional re-boots, I haven't seen the bug in a number > of months, and only once in the last year or so. None of the modern OS's should require rebooting, ever. All NT-based versions of Windows and OS X have memory management and resource limits that should allow them to run for months, if not years, without reboots. -- 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
