On 18 Oct 2005 at 2:15, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 18 Oct 2005, at 2:01 AM, dc wrote: > > > On the contrary, wouldn't it be better to turn Autosave off? > > Uh, no, because unless you have impeccable manual save habits (and of > course, some do), you will _lose everything_ and have to revert to > your last manual save, whenever that was.
Does Finale's AutoSave work differently on Mac than on Windows? On Windows, it creates a *separate* file for the AutoSave, and does *not* save to the original file name, so on Windows, you have MyMusic.mus, which reflects that last time you manually saved the file, and MyMusic.asv, which reflects the data the last time AutoSave kicked in. > > Because if the bug strikes and you Autosave every minute (that's > > what I do), you have more chances of saving the corrupt version. > > IMO, autosave every minute is unwise, for exactly this reason. But if > you have it set to something reasonable, like every 5 minutes, most > of the time, you should be able to close the document before autosave > kicks in. > > It's pretty instantly obvious when your entire document has lost all > of its entries. Unless the MacFin AutoSave works completely differently, I don't see how AutoSave is at all dangerous in the way you describe. -- 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
