On 20 Oct 2005 at 15:08, Christopher Smith wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> >
> > From a database point of view (and Finale files are database files),
> > it's definitely corruption, and of the logical type. There are two
> > types of corruption in a database:
> >
> > 1. logical corruption
> >
> > 2. content corruption.
> >
> > Logical corruption means that the data structures in which your
> > information is stored are corrupted. It's quite clear from someone's
> > post yesterday (can't remember exactly who it was) who did a file
> > integrity check that the internal structures are completely hosed --
> > a whole lot of pointers connecting data to their usage information
> > has been lost.
> 
> Now, you see, THIS is the kind of knowledge that might go a long way
> to helping MakeMusic solve this. . . .

I am 100% certain that the folks at MakeMusic know what I wrote above 
inside and out. They also know from the reports and the corrupted 
files people are sending in that the structure of the files is being 
damaged.

And I'm sure they know this *much* better than *I* do!

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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