On 10 Sep 2007 at 14:46, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> Okay, so another thing I've noticed is that FinMac2008 reliably hangs  
> after being left open for a long period of time -- say, overnight.  
> (You may need to have Garritan instruments loaded for this to  
> happen). Everything appears fine when you return to the computer, but  
> as soon as you try to perform an action, you get the Spinning Rainbow  
> Wheel of Death. The only way out of this hang is to Force Quit, but  
> when you do that, the entire computer hangs for about 30 seconds  
> (with the Spinning Rainbow Wheel of Death in *every* app, and even  
> the dock doesn't pop up on mouseover, etc).

Does your computer go into any power-saving modes when left 
overnight? For example, powering down the video card, hard drive, 
half speed for CPU and then powering off peripherals. This could 
cause problems if Finale wants to initialize some connection to a 
peripheral that is not waking up when the machine becomes active 
again in the morning.

I gave up a long time ago on all the power saving features of 
computers. There have just been too many problems, and as long as my 
computer is plugged into the wall, everything stays on. I know it's 
not environmentally friendly, but there's just too much risk of 
losing data, not to mention the inconveniencing of then having to 
restart the machine and rebuild the working environment you had set 
up for yourself.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/


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