On 18 Oct 2005 at 18:15, Darcy James Argue wrote: [long explanation of Finale 2004 text block autosave file overwrite bug]
> This bug was corrected in Fin2005b, but when working with Fin2004, > it's not safe to use autosave when working with multiple documents. Um, that's all very interesting, but simply has nothing to do with your recommendation, to turn off AutoSave. With this current bug, turning ON AutoSave could be what saves your bacon. Frequent manual saves are exactly what could cause you to overwrite good data with corrupted data. And, of course, there's also the backup file that you can choose to create each time you manually save a file, and that might save you if you saved and the real file had the data missing. Let me say again that I highly recommend the use of a program that manages your deleted files. The one that I use allows me to recover every version of the file saved back to an incredibly long time ago. This means that I could never lose much work to a bug like this, because I've can recover every version of the MUS, BAK and ASV files that have ever been saved. Sometimes it's hard to tell which one is the best to restore, but at least all the versions are there for me to attempt to recover. -- 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
