I'm amazed that a power user like yourself doesn't see them more often, although you ARE using the relatively stable 2005 version.
i do, but this one was different. usually i just breathe in deeply, bestow upon the dumputer a delicate spew of verbal abuse, take a pee and go back to (recover lost) work.
Hiro mentioned that often if he gets the spinning beach ball, just getting up and walking away to let the computer sort things out itself often works.
i discovered long ago (possibly F2005) that if you have auto-save on you can leave it in hang mode long enough to get the next save before force-quitting and picking up from the auto-save doc. i rarely got it to come back to life or recovered hung docs just by waiting. and i don't use auto-save anymore (have taught myself to be more diligent about saving... most of the time), after getting paranoid about the overwrite bug, which as i recall was never "solved" but seems to have disappeared, or gone underground, in 2007 (and 2008?).
2007 is working fine for me (well, no less stable than 2005; never had 2006), but i had corrections on a 2005 file, and the many tiny differences i would have to adjust (esp. tuplet placement above) aren't worth the hassle for the few corrections i have to do.
(i like to call it the spinning psychedelic pizza of death) -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
