dhbailey / 2005/10/20 / 02:58 PM wrote: >But nobody is trying to say that the bug deletes data from files which >aren't open, and it doesn't delete files from the hard disk.
OK, I now feel extremely stoopid not understanding that, but on the other hand, if that is what this thread is about, it isn't a new Finale behavior. When I was producing big band charts almost every week with Finale 1.0 up to around 3.2, this kind of Finale behavior was not surprising. With my Mac512/MacPlus/IIsi back then, just deleting text data would had caused such data loss that you might not realize. For this reason, I used to do incremental save when dealing with large files as you mentioned. Interestingly Finale was not the only one suffering from delete cmd. ProComp was 100% crashing when you delete data more than a few words in the text block, and even worse the file will be corrupted. That was the reason I shell out $1,000 to get Finale in 1987. It has been my understanding that the designer of Finale knows how fragile Finale file might be, and that is why Finale has automatic backup file system and Data Check utility. I have been so used to babying Finale files. Does Sibelius has functions that suggests its file might be similarly venerable? Neverthless, it is much desired if they rewrite Finale from ground-up for modern OSes. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
