On Nov 19, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Peter Taylor wrote:
I would be able to tell you if I COULD see them. They aren't
called .tmp on the Mac, but what ARE they called? I know they must
be somewhere, but I can't find them. Anybody Mac-oriented who can
point me?
Christopher
Christopher - sorry I can't help with Mac. In WinFin 2005 I click
on Options > Program Options and choose the Folders item. At the
bottom of the Folder lists is the location of Temporary Files. For
every new installation I create a discrete folder for Finale's
temporary files (for which I create a shortcut on the desktop) and
empty it manually very frequently. This has been standard practice
ever since I discovered the problems that temporary files cause.
They can even affect the general running of the machine, not just
Finale - at least they used to before I knew what to do about it.
This includes slowing everything down.
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I just got interested in the possibility that these temp files might
be causing me some problems. (Mac G5 mucho RAM - 2006a - full GPO.)
Finale had been open for about 48 hours, and my entire machine was
acting reluctant - extra clicks necessary to get things to open and
generally strange and unresponsive behavior - the cursor not moving
to the location you click in a text doc (like this one) until you
clicked the third time, slow selection of Mass Edit areas within
Finale. These things sneak up on me, and I don't think anything is
wrong until I get really frustrated. So I looked in Finale options/
folders and saw that there were more than 500 temp files in the
folder that Finale said was on my HD/private. I couldn't locate that
folder anywhere, so I chose another temp file location and quit
Finale. The computer's behavior immediately returned to normal.
Question is: was the lesson quit and restart Finale often, empty temp
file folder often, or both?
In any case, this seems unusually buggy 2006 behavior, and MM should
address it (among other things), but if the cure is this simple, at
least we can control it.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
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Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
phone (360) 671-3402
fax (360) 676-6055
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