David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]>
I have strong doubts that you are actually seeing files re-used, as
you say. The file *names* may very well get re-used, but only an
extremely poorly designed temp file subroutine would re-use the
actual file content. I'm assuming that with each Windows logon
session, the temp file naming starts over at FIN01.TMP, so that would
mean that your normal user who starts up her computer, runs Finale,
then closes Finale and shuts down the computer, then next day starts
up the computer and opens Finale, will be re-using the same 15
filenames every single day. Now, I've got too much junk running to
log off and test this right now, but if it's the *normal* operating
case, then it would be only the stupidist of programmers who would
have set it up that way.
[snip]
What I noticed was that there were tmp files from one date sandwiched
among files of a second date.
In other words, what I saw were a lot of tmp files from one session,
then files from a more recent session, which were interspersed among the
files from the first session.
I understand what you're saying, David, in that if I had a lengthy
session where 150 files were used, and then ended that session and at a
later date ran Finale again on a shorter session, logic might indicate
that the first 20 (for example) files might be from the newer, shorter
session.
But what I observed was what appeared to be a random interspersing of
dates, where the first x files were from the older date, and that the
more recent files were scattered among higher file names.
--
David H. Bailey
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