Ahh Brennon,

There has been discussion of this kind of event on this list in the past few days.  Others have described more complicated file corruption problems, but I have had exactly this one.  Please report it to Makemusic.  That will give more credibility to my report.  The support folks there are usually responsive, but they have not been able to reproduce this behavior, so they can do nothing to help find it.  I don't want them to be dismissive of this, just because they can't get it to happen, and the information that you can give them - that you had gone into the print dialog when Finale quit, will help them.  This is similar to my experience, when changing what Finale is doing - what kind of process is occurring - in some major way, produces the crash.

As far as finding a saved file is concerned, if you had autosave turned on in Finale's Program Options, then there's a recent copy somewhere.  Otherwise, and I say this in all sympathy, experience is a hard teacher, first the test, then the lesson.

Nowadays, not only do you need to learn music, but if you want to use these tools, there are work habit lessons to be learned about them as well.

I can't count the number of times things like that have happened to me, and though I don't mean to make light of it, or to sound Pollyanna-ish, if your work was meaningful to you, and had your own inner logic driving it, it should be possible to reconstruct it.  You can't get the time back, but you can take advantage of the problem to reexamine your work.  That's about the most positive spin I can muster, and I hope it helps your morale.

Chuck


On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Brennon Bortz wrote:

Here’s another stupid question...

I have spent all night and all day today writing.  I know this is horrible, but I hadn’t saved my file yet.  I went to print out a draft copy, and Finale (FinMac2006) unexpectedly quit.  Is there anyplace this file might be saved as a backup (even in an earlier version)?!

Thank you,
Brennon
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University of California, Riverside
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