On 7 Oct 2005 at 6:26, dhbailey wrote: > I have run into too many problems over the years with autosave messing > things up because it takes over whenever it is scheduled to run, > regardless of what other processes may be running.
Would my feature suggestions address your problems with Autosave? Seems to me that it would, but I can't know how others are likely to feel about it. I started using Autosave in Finale when I had bad problems with Finale crashing. I was working with a couple of files that whenever a certain measure became the leftmost frame in scroll view, Finale would just crash. After much investigation, I concluded it was a video driver issue and since there were no alternate or newer drivers for my system, I just gave up and lived with it. I can't say that I've used the Autosave file more than a couple of times ever, but it is definitely a layer of protection that I am glad to have. Of course, I also depend on the protected recycle bin that I installed after losing some data because of a mistaken file delete. I use a program called Executive Software Undelete, which manages the recycle bin, but more importantly, takes control of the free chain, so that deleted files stay unaltered as long as possible (the free chain is the file system's list of sectors that are open for writing to; Microsoft's normal free chain is pretty random, not the last-in, last-out you'd expect, and this program makes sure that it's LILO). Using this undelete software, I recently recovered a file that I had screwed up that I hadn't edited in nearly 6 months. I was able to revert to the last version before I started my current erroneous edits because I had a choice of ever version of the file going back almost as long as the file had existed. That include ASV and BAK files, as well, along with the original MUS files. So, I could probably turn off Autosave, like David Bailey, and be OK, as the video driver problem trained me to save, save, save, save, save after almost any significant operation. Nonetheless, I still like having Autosave as another layer of protection, because my experience with backups of all kinds is that you never lose data when just one backup layer fails -- it's always when muliple systems fail that you lose the data, and that happens a lot more often than we'd like to believe. I just wish the Finale Autosave were more intelligent. If you agree with me, send in your feature request to MakeMusic. -- 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
