On 18 Oct 2005, at 1:53 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
Okay, let me back up and explain:
First, FinMac (don't know about FinWin) is awful about keeping track
of whether there have, in fact, been any real changes to a file
before closing. It pretty much asks you if you want to save changes
before closing or quitting 100% of the time, regardless whether
anything has actually been changed. (Fin2k6 is a little better about
this.)
Also, when I'm working on a set of parts, I often open the entire set
at once, because sometimes changes to one part will require
additional changes in all the part. Often, I'm not sure exactly which
parts I've changed and which I haven't, so when quitting, I will just
automatically say "yes" whenever Finale asks me if I want to save
changes for each document.
But in Fin2004 and early versions of Fin2005, when multiple files
were open simultaneously, and you had autosave on, if you had an
active insertion point when autosave kicked in -- say, in the text
expression designer, or an open text expression box -- text in _all
open documents_ would be corrupted. For instance, if you were editing
a staff name header, the staff name header from the active document
would be pasted into _all_ the currently open documents, so that all
your parts said, e.g., "Violin I" in the staff name header.
But if you didn't know about this bug and precisely what triggers it,
you would have no way of knowing that anything had gone awry with any
of the documents open in the background, and when you went to quit,
you might just say "Yes," when asked if you want to save changes,
thus saving the corrupted text into all the currently open
documents. And, of course, since autosave caused the bug, all of the
autosaved copies were corrupted too. So unless you had additional
backups, you were S.O.L.
This bug was corrected in Fin2005b, but when working with Fin2004,
it's not safe to use autosave when working with multiple documents.
- Darcy
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