Will Denayer wrote:
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?
Short answer: Yes, you should make backups. Longer explanation: I back
up every file at least once, a different storage device. If I
anticipate needing portability, the back-up is to a 1 GB flash drive, if
I don't anticipate needing portability, I have two hard drives installed
in my machine, and I backup to the second hard drive. Generally, I do
not back-up "derived" files; if it is trivial to regenerate a file, such
as a ~.pdf, or ~.MID file, I don't generally back them up; if I need
them later, it is trivial to recreate these. If you do not have a
second hard drive, or a flash drive, then the next best thing (in my
opinion), is to burn off the files periodically to CD-R or CD-RW disks.
I know there is some controversy as to whether either of these are
suitable for long term storage, but I have chosen not to worry about the
controversy. If I am backing up a folder which I believe will be
changing, I generally do so to a CD-RW, if the folder is likely to be
static, then I generally use a CD-R.
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)?
Specifics of this may vary depending upon whether you want to add the
three beats at the beginning or in the middle of an existing measure,
and I'll leave it to you to investigate and figure the details. The
general procedure I use is:
1) select the time signature tool, and change the time signature of the
measure to have the new beats to 8/4
2) change to simple entry, and insert the new beats in each part
.
3) select the meter signature tool again, and select the 8/4 measure.
Again making sure that you have set the meter-signature dialog to
operate only on the selected measure, check the "rebar music" option,
and change the meter signature to 4/4. If necessary, rebar to the end
of the piece.
ns
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