David,
It's much quicker now in 2006, but it can still interrupt a process
(mass edit, for instance), and when it does, there's a chance that it
may crash the program. I haven't been able to determine what causes
this, but I have experienced crashes during times that use a lot of
processing power (the middle of a GPO playback, for instance), and I
think it may be that Autosave is kicking in at that moment. I
repeat, I'm not sure. Sometimes people who are more computer savvy
than I are able to determine causes of problems that I cannot.
Otherwise, it is better now - mainly because it's so quick, but
everything you say is logical, and I agree with it. It just hadn't
occurred to me that making such adjustments in the way things work
might be possible.
I am surprised by these occasional crashes, because 2005 was pretty
crash free for me.
Chuck
On Oct 6, 2005, at 1:44 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
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
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