A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I see.
Next question is that how many people actually experienced this ["scary bug!"]
I've counted three. all (I think) on MAC: Javier, Darcy, and Don. On the
other hand other MAC power users who I would have expected to experience
the bug (Johannes, Robert Patterson) hae not reported experienceing it.
This combination of factors suggests to me that it may be a consequence
of a non-Finale issue.
I would note too, that Darcy has described work habits that I could must
not be very comfortable with, based upon my experience with computers.
The mere thought of having a score and a complete set of parts all open
at the same time, or of automatically agreeing to save all changes to
every file regardless of whether any real edits had been done is
sufficient to make me verrrrrry uncomfortable. [NB: I do not mean to
criticize Darcy's work habits, any more than I criticize people who, for
recreation, enjoy free-fall skydiving, or for that matter people who eat
"steak tartare"; it's a big world, and they are welcome to work, play,
or eat, in such manner as they wish. Me, though, I like my meat cooked
through, I can't imagine exiting a perfectly good aircraft at an
altitude of more than 0 inches, when I've reached a convenient place to
save a file—such as when I go to another file for more than referrence
purposes—I do, twice—once each to two differrent hard drives; and I
don't save a file unless I'm sure why I want to.
I suppose this would mirror my habits if I were doing hand copying of a
score and parts, using pen and iink; I expect I'd be working on one
surface, one one page, and pages that I was not actively working on
would be on a shelf, or another work surface, so that if I spilled the
ink, or sneezed, I would minimize the adverse consequences to the
smallest possible number of documents.
ns.
ns
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