On 9 Aug 2005 at 23:07, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Chuck Israels schrieb: > > > I think Johannes is right about this, but it is much better. I have > > mine set to 15 minutes, but 5 would be safer. Still, if it loses > > things in a process which is going on while it saves, there's some > > danger. Which is less aggravating, having to redo a process in > > which you are engaged when the autosave runs (OK, if it doesn't > > hang up the whole program, I guess), or forgetting to save and > > having to redo an hour's worth of work? (What if there were no > > rhetorical questions?) Depends on how reliable your own "save" > > habits are. I find mine are fine for a while, and then I get > > complacent - not a good thing. > > I don't think there is any danger that Finale would loose things in a > process, the process just gets put on hold for the time it saves. But > while you are inputting notes with Speedy it will not respond to the > input, thus lose notes.
This is not the case in WinFin2003 -- the input is simply buffered by the OS (I presume) until the Finale process has time to read from the buffers outside Finale that feed it the data from the MIDI and QWERTY keyboards. > Autosave _should_ be quite save, although I seem to remember there was > a danger in relation with the File overwrite bug. Does anyone know > whether this bug is finally gone in 2k6? I don't know about that, but the principle behind any backup routine is that you never overwrite the previous backup until you know that the current backup has succeeded. That means that if you have a 15- minute autosave interval, you could, potentially, lose just under 15 minutes of work (assuming that Finale crashed for some reason during the autosave operation), but never any more than that. I would assume that autosave works by saving to a temporary file, then deleting the previous autosave file and renaming the new one to the name of the autosave file (on WinFin, it's called YourFileName.ASV). So, if Finale crashed at any point between the start of the autosave operation and the renaming of the file, you could lose that autosaved work. But that's no different than if Finale crashed just *before* an autosave, so the actually difference in maximum work lost is seconds at most. -- 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
