Leigh Daniels wrote:
I have been sending the crash report in every time since FinMac2007 and I guess MM still hasn't fixed it--yet another reason not to upgrade.
In this case, the upgrade to 2008a is an improvement. You would still get crashes, but you get those now. A lot of other bugs are fixed rather than staying the same or worse than 2007.
My unfortunate discovery of the Human Playback problem (i.e., it only works with All Staves rather than using Staff Sets) happened to be the first thing I tried, so it irked me greatly that no one noticed it before releasing the software. It took 3 days to get a partial solution to that one.
The fix for the enharmonic flipping bug and the various hyphen fixes makes this a worthwhile update. If MakeMusic responds quickly to the new HP playback problem and perhaps even the crash-on-quit issue, then I'd say we are really getting somewhere.
About your crashing during HP, have you tried erasing all HP data using the HP playback plugin? You might have to run it 3 or 4 times before it gets everything. As I noted in another email, HP data sometimes (maybe even rarely) get saved with the file (in 2007) even if you hadn't run the HP plugin.
Another thing to try is to remove your Finale 2007 Preferences and build them again from scratch. Once you've got the preference file back to where you want it, save that file in case you have to replace a corrupt preference file in the future.
The install software for Finale 2008 AND 2008a say that you can reuse an old preference file by renaming it (and then changing the settings that are relevant). I think this shortcut has been shown to introduce bugs in the past. I can't believe they still offer it up as a suggestion.
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