----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Denayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:25 PM
Subject: [Finale] Error message and simple entry message


> Hello All,
>
> I would like to ask two things.
> First, something happened which really scares me. I wrote a little
exercise some days ago. When I tried to open it this morning, I got the
following message:
> ' C:/Documents and Settings/Will/Desktop/MUS/ex21.MUS appears to be
corrput; attempting to continue, but resulting document may be unstable.
Data error (cyclic redundancy check).'
> I cannot open this ex.21 anymore. I do not care about this exercise, but I
have one file which is serious work and I would absolutely hate to lose it.
What can I do? Is there a way to protect myself this from happening? Do I
need to make backups and store them somewhere else? How do you anticipate
such things?
> Second, I am writing a piece (on three staves). For the moment it is in
4/4 all the way. It's basically a double canon. Suppose that I want to
interrupt the flow at some point. I would like the whole texture to go
forward three beats, so that I can write something else there. Is there an
easy way of doing this (in simple entry)?
> Thank you for reading and with best regards, Will (Finale 2007 and Windows
XP)
>
The first things I would do would be making frequent backups of your works
on another harddisk or on CD/DVD and not saving your works in C:\ drive
which is the one who hosts the whole operative system. C: is frequently
"rewritten" by Windows tasks and should host only the operative system and
applications that absolutely require to be installed in that partition (this
depends on installation requirements). That is to avoid that, in case of C:
crash, you can install back the OS without losing your works. (The better
thuing would be to make an image of a working C: partition on a DVD, so even
you have to format C:, after you can simply copy your image on C: without
losing your settings). This obviously works if you have previously created a
dedicated partition of your hard disk for the operative system (which has to
be C:) and then one or more partitions to store programs and works. A
program like Partition Magic could help you.

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