dhbailey wrote:
In Windows, for many years now, the same has been possible but for
some reason the good programmers at Finale haven't seen fit to make
the two versions identical in that regard.
There is nothing inherent in windows that forces MyMusic.mus,
MyMusic.bak, MyMusic.asv -- they could all be MyMusic.mus, MyMusic
bak.mus (or MyMusic copy.mus), and MyMusic asv.mus -- that they aren't
isn't the fault of Microsoft or of the windows operating system, but
rather it's the fault of the programmers at MM who haven't seen fit to
take advantage of the filename possibilities in Windows,
Wait a minute. Let's assume a particular folder has three files:
MyMusic.mus,
MyMusic.bak, and
MyMusic.asv.
Yes, it is possible under currently supported versions of Windows to
have a file which appears in some filesystems as
MyMusic bak.mus
However, this is an alias name. If you consult the actual directory
entry of the file, or look at properties of the file, and examine the
"dos name", you will see that the file name there is shown as
MyMusi~1.mus
If next an ~.asv file is created of the same file, it may have an alias
name of
MyMusic asv.mus
but it will have an actual name of
MyMusi~2.mus.
I do remember (perhaps wrongly) that as you get more files with the same
first characters, you will eventually get
MyMus~10.mus.
I can't say whether you continuing would generate MyMu~100; the
discovery of the above caused me to take positive control of backups.
When I begin a new project, I open a new folder with the composition
name. The template (if any) for that work has the name 0 (padded to the
left to the with as many as I think there may be editing sessions. The
work performed in the first editing session is saved as 1 (again padded
to the left with zeros, to maintain directory order). The second
editing session begins by opening file 1, and immediately resaving it as
file 2, where in all of that work is saved. Also, if at any point I
decide that I may want to return to a specific point in the workflow, I
will do a file save. For example, suppose I am working on a
multi-movement work, and have not yet decided whether I want to do each
movement as a separate file. In this case, even though it might be in
the middle of an editing session, I will save the work, and begin on a
new copy, renamed at the beginning to a new number. While ~.asv files
will overwrite during each editing session using this method, ~.bak
files will not.
ns
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