On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
There has been a side benfit to this technique. On more than one occasion, I was able to avoid spending a great deal of time and effort removing items in a file when a client changed his mind about how he wanted an item, simply by going back to an earlier version of the file. Yes, the folder containing a major project may have a hundred or more files in it, but given hardware and media costs, storage is incredibly cheap these days, certainly far less than a dollar a gigabyte.
There is a downside however: if you don't rigorously, religiously, follow all the necessary steps required for this system, you can end up with what I constantly get from this composer in Malta: revisions applied to an outdated version of the score. I keep telling him "sorry you did all that work for nothing--now redo it using the latest state of the file"--but he just doesn't seem to get it.
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