On 18.10.2005 Don Hart wrote:
What is your backup routine? I guess I don't understand how you'd be
able
to confidently limit lost work to an hour with this bug.
Well, if I save my work regularly (and only when I am reasonably
comfortable that the data is still intact), and also have autosave set
to 10 minutes, I am likely to have two backup copies (three if I have
Finale set to automatically save backups when I save) when the bug
strikes. If, by accident, I hit command-s after the bug has struck, I
still have the autosaves. And the backup saves. If not, all I loose is
what I did since the last save. If autosave kicks in after the bug
struck I still have my backup and my saved copy. If both autosave and an
accidental command-s happened I still have the backup.
I also do routine backups to two external hardisks after any amount of
substancial work I did, so that gives me some extra security. One those
harddisks is portable and I take it with me whereever I go.
I can live with that much security. I do not believe in safe software.
Today I was working on something completely differently, I was editing a
recording. I lost about an hour's work because the software crashed.
Annoying, no doubt, but nothing to get worked up about. It only happens
every once in a while, and as long as I don't completely loose work that
took months to do (which I don't because I have backups) I live with it.
Have to live with it.
Johannes
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