On 7 Oct 2005 at 9:36, dc wrote: > David W. Fenton écrit: > >Now, it's possible that these things have been changed in newer > >versions of Finale. If so, I'd like to know. > > Well, I Autosave every 1 minute in Fin2004, and it's never bothered > me. But then, I don't do Wagner.
It didn't become much an issue for me until I started combining my individual movement files into a single file. Three files of 368, 139 and 586 measures combined were not individually a problem. But when I started combining files like that into a single file, the Autosave became quite obtrusive. Now, certainly, my machine is old and slow compared to today's new PCs (though it never has really felt that way to me in any other program, and mostly doesn't in Finale, either, which has always seemed to me to be pretty efficiently designed from a performance standpoint), but I'm just comparing the way Finale works to all other programs I've ever used. No other program I have with Autosave interrupts user actions to save. I'm not sure if any of them reset the clock after a manual save, because their Autosave is unobtrusive enough that I don't notice. If I were working with smaller files it would certainly be less of a problem, but I still think kicking in while I'm pulling down a menu is not good design, even if it is only a short interval. -- 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
