On Sep 6, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Simon Troup wrote:
Simon -- Fin2k5 or 2k6?
2k6.
Has anyone tracked down a proceedure that can reproduce the bug?
No, unfortunately, the razzen-frazzen thing just swoops in
unexpectedly, overwrites a file (with or without notice) and then is
gone.
It happens when multiple files are open.
It has happened to me when I have extracted/opened parts, then opened
ANOTHER Finale file while all my parts and score are still open. So far
this is the way to get it in my case, but I can't make it happen again,
even starting with the same file and going through everything again.
For a while, it was thought to happen when a text block is open, but
that apparently turned out to be another, different bug involving text
blocks getting overwritten, not the entire file.
In all cases with me, but not with everyone, it happened when I was
reworking a score created in a previous version of Finale.
There seems to be some related bug reported by some (and I saw it once)
where a file APPEARS to have different contents than the title bar, but
redrawing or changing from page to scroll view corrects it. Maybe
saving before re-drawing causes the apparent contents to overwrite the
correct contents; I don't know.
Apparently if you can find your last auto-saved backup file BEFORE
auto-save overwrites it again, you can recover the file and thus avoid
re-entering the whole darn thing again.
In my case, it has been followed by Finale bugging out in some way
(unexpected behaviour like slowdown, keys stopping working, partial
page rewrites, inability to scroll, or complete freeze necessitating a
force-quit of Finale.)
Any other things that happen consistently, victims of the Bug?
Christopher
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