On 7 Oct 2005 at 13:31, Carl Donsbach wrote: > The problem I have with autosave is that it is a > substitute for a good habit.
When I look at my undelete program's list of available file versions to recover, I have more BAK and MUS versions than ASV versions. That means I'm manually saving more often than the Autosave. So, I have good habits. Why not turn off Autosave, then, and lose the annoyance of it kicking in? Because Autosave could possibly kick in at just the right time, after I've manually saved and before a crash that loses data. Also, as I said in another message, as with all backup systems, it is hardly ever the case that anyone loses data when just one of them fails. It almost always takes the failure of multiple redundant backups before you lose data. Also, with the Autosave file, you've got one more chance to get the data back. It may be useless most of the time (I've not recovered an ASV file more than a couple of times in all my years of using Finale), but it's that one time when it *wouldn't* be useless that it's there for. -- 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
