Yes, perfect! This is the best description of what happened... Many thanks, David!
> Hiro, > > As I understand what Javier is saying is that the file loses data. If > he has inadvertently saved it, not realizing there was lost data in > portions not showing on-screen when he saved it, he has also overwritten > the last-good-version of the file. So all he is left with is the one > with the data lacking. > > Yes, IF he had caught the problem before hitting ctrl-s, then he could > simply have re-opened the original, undamaged version off the hard-disk. > > But I know I never search through all the thousands of measures in a > score before hitting ctrl-s, and Finale never searches for lost data > before doing an autosave, so it is entirely possible for the autosave to > overwrite a good file with a bad file at approximately the same time > that the user saves the file manually, thus overwriting the good version > with the bad version. > > That would leave only the "make backup file when saving" function as the > last possible hope. But if the bug had bitten the file and one had done > several ctrl-s saves before realizing what had happened, it would be > very easy to understand that there would be NO good versions left. > > Unless one always did a "save-as" and renamed the file each and every > time one saved it. > > 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. > > David H. Bailey > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
