One thing that can't be determined well from a demo version of Finale is how Autosave settings have been changed. I use WinFin2K3 and am constantly annoyed at how stupid Autosave is. Here are some changes I'd like to see to the way Autosave behaves:
1. always, always, always wait for idle time before saving. This means that if I'm in the middle of choosing something from a menu DON'T FREEZE FINALE WHILE THE FILE SAVES -- wait until I've made my choics, for the first point that the mouse button is not down, a menu is not active and there are no keyboard input for a certain reasonably chosen interval. 2. reset the Autosave clock after a forced save. This means that if I hit Ctrl-S and the Autosave interval is 10 minutes, Autosave should not kick in 1 minute after I've saved just because the last Autosave was 9 minutes before I saved my file. 3. perhaps, make these things user configurable. I can't see why anyone would want to be interrupted by 1), but I can understand why some would feel comfortable with Autosave on its own clock, independent of user-initiated save operations. Now, it's possible that these things have been changed in newer versions of Finale. If so, I'd like to know. Otherwise, I'll be sending in a feature request, and would suggest that others do likewise. -- 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
