Will Denayer wrote:
"Phil, This cannot be the case. The computer I am using is less than 3
months old. Thank you for the valuable feed-back from everyone."
Really. Ok. You are the expert. Hope you have a back up.
I'd take Phil's advise. Get a new drive, copy everything off the old
one, then take your receipt and get the company to send you another.
Most offer 1 year warranties, some up to 5.
No, I'm not an expert, as I am telling everyone every time, I don't know anything about computers, so I sometimes assume things.
I have a memory stick. Do you think I can save my stuff on that?
I read somewhere - I don't remember where - that there was a bug in Finale 2001. Sometimes the program would not reproduce the last 9 (I think) bars of a piece when opening Finale again. I was wondering. This exercise which won't open anymore was only 2 or 3 bars long, just a series of progressions basically. Maybe that has something to do with it. I say this because, to my computer incompetent mind, my hard disk seems to be working normally for the rest. Respectfully, Will
It doesn't matter what the medium is that you save your data to, just
make sure to have it on several different media, such as 2 physically
different hard drives (as opposed to 2 virtual drives on one physical
drive) or a hard drive and some other media such as cdrom or dvdrom or
even a memory stick (you have a memory stick large enough to hold all
your data?) or whatever you wish.
But if all your other data files are working fine in all your other
applications and if all your Finale data except for this one file is
fine, then it may well be that your file is simply toast and you've lost
it but your hard drive may be fine. It also may be in the initial
stages of failure and that particular Finale file may be the location of
the first problem.
In any event, you should get in the habit of saving your data in
different locations on a regular basis. My wife saves her data to her
hard drive and to a floppy drive immediately. I save to hard drive and
then every couple of days I copy my data folders to a different hard
drive. Some people do backups daily, some people do them weekly, some
do them monthly and some never do them. The old adage is "save your
data only as often as you won't mind losing that much work." And this
can easily apply to backups, too.
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David H. Bailey
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