On Jun 1, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Fellow Listers,
I have been revising an arrangement that I did several years ago. The
original file was created with Finale 3.5.2 and now I use Fin 2K3a on
a Mac G3.
During my revision, I deleted several sections of the music and
changed some of the parts.
The Problem: one of my first ending repeats does not work right.
Finale takes the repeat during playback...but then wants to jump to
the wrong measure instead of taking the 2nd ending. I used the Repeat
Plug-In to create the 1st ending repeat. There is only 1 bar in the
first ending.
I have done the following to try and fix the playback problem:
re-entered my 1st and 2nd ending repeats using the Repeats Plug-In.
removed deleted items.
tested the files integrity.
updated the layout.
re-spaced the music.
I can get Finale to playback the music correctly....sometimes. If I
close the file and then re-open it, playback reverts to the original
problem.
Any suggestions as to what to try next?
Larry,
It's been my experience that opening older files introduces a whole
bunch of odd inconsistencies like this. I often get measures that don't
space correctly for no apparent reason, even after I clear the contents
and re-enter the notes, measures that don't appear, expressions and
shapes that seem to move of their own accord all over the page, and of
course, the repeats never seem to work the way I think they should.
My best advice to you (as this file appears to be corrupted in some
way, so the repeats are not likely to work properly, ever) is to create
a clip file and insert (not replace) the clip file into a new document
created in 2003, and use the new file as a playback file only, if the
thought of re-jigging the layout is too exhausting for you.
Christopher
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