Christopher Smith wrote:
It seems to me that the Undo lists reach back to BEFORE a save, so you
should be able to save your file (call it File 1) under a new name
(say, File 2), then go back and revert to when the staff was present,
copy it, and paste it into File 1.
While Finale does have undo to past save capability, I don't know
whether the capability is enabled by default or not. If it is not, or if
Bruce has turned it off, wittingly or not, it might not be available..
As far as Bruce's problem, I'm wondering if some how he managed to hide
all the notes in the staff.
As to preventing Bruce's problem in the future, the best bet I know is
incremental back-ups. After saving an edit, I almost always save the
new work under a file with a new name; in particular, I normally put
each composition in a separate directory / folder, and name the first
major save 0001. If I quit for a period, or have reached a "major
stopping point" (even if I do not choose to stop there), I save the
file, and immediately change the name of the file (in this case to 0002)
and save it again with the new name, and do future work on file 0002,
until I change the name to 0003. For me, finding while editing draft 12
that I am missing a part several edits ago, becomes as simple as going
back to the appropriate earlier edit, and copying the part forward.
More importantly, the intermediate saves are present, so I may be able
to figure out what happened to cause me to lose the part.
Finally, for the sake of completeness, nearly all of my work does not
only get saved to a new file name, each file is saved at least twice, in
different locations, as well. "Different locations" means on two
different physical objects (drive C and a CD-R; or if drive C and drive
D are different physical objects, then one on each.
ns
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