On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:20 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Chuck,
The hang-on-quit is a known problem with all versions of Finale and
OS X 10.5.x (Leopard). It is possible to get a "clean" quit if you
use Finale for a very short period of time, but anything more than
about 5 minutes or so and Finale gets in a state where if you try to
quit, it will hang. And once this happens, you cannot relaunch
Finale without logging out and logging back in.
Hi Darcy,
Thank you - this has gotten frustrating. This is an explanation of
some of the behavior I have been experiencing. And yes, it happens
after long periods of Finale use. I will try the force quit method -
going there directly rather than as a recourse when Finale refuses to
quit by the usual methods, and I'll see if that helps. If this will
leave the preferences intact and uncorrupted and allow a clean restart
of Finale, that is not too much trouble, and I'll be grateful. I am
hopeful that MM and/or Apple may improve the situation.
There have been other anomalies, however: the loss of the Auto Update
Layout preference (not such a big deal, but strange nonetheless), and
the erratic playback behavior that creeps in after longer periods of
work. I have tried different methods of dealing with this - once or
twice removing the transposition selection from an offending
instrument and replacing it has resulted in a short term cure, and
sometimes reloading the JABB instruments (by closing and reopening the
file) will also fix the problem temporarily, but never for long. I
have not been able to identify this as a Garritan or Kontact Player 2
problem - don't know how I'd be able to isolate that anyway.
Thanks,
Chuck
This is, I must say, INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. But it seems like Apple
is at least somewhat to blame here, as a significant number of audio-
based apps have serious problems in Leopard -- Finale (and Sibleius,
I might add) included.
The best workaround I've found is so far is to ALWAYS Force Quit
Finale -- don't ever use File -> Quit, just go directly to Force
Quit instead (cmd-opt-esc). I use that now instead of the regular
quit, and most of the time, this works -- after a Force Quit I don't
have to log out in order to relaunch Finale, which is something I
have to do if I try to quit normally.
I have not seen the Preferences corruption issue you are having, but
you should not, generally, have to restart your Mac in order to get
Finale to recognize a fresh set of preferences -- Force Quit
followed by a relaunch ought to do the trick.
A few gentle words of encouragement directed at MM Customer Support
from everyone experiencing these issues couldn't hurt.
- Darcy
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On 19 Feb 2008, at 6:46 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Tried again, even re-installed Finale from the 2k8a updater and
rebuilt the preferences yet again, only to have Finale hang up on
quit and refuse to re-open again. I am beyond frustrated.
Chuck
On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Hiro,
Well, for the first time in a long time, I was able to get Finale
to quit without incident. (I am up at 3 in the morning for no
reason I can identify, and Finale has been closed and resting
awhile.) The more frequent behavior is that it hangs - the screen
goes blank, but Finale remains open, preventing restarts etc. It
then becomes necessary to force quit. After force quitting,
Finale will not re-open. It hangs up near the beginning of the
process, and you get the spinning wheel of death. Only trashing
and replacing the preferences will allow Finale to open again.
Another thing I notice is that occasionally, while I am working on
a file, Finale will lose the Automatic Update Layout preference.
I have not been able to identify what makes that happen, but I
usually notice it while editing parts and using TGTools - Modify/
Transfer to move the layout of one part to another. This plugin
will only function correctly when Auto Update Layout is on.
I don't know what AUManager is - or even what AU is.
Thanks for your help.
Chuck
On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Chuck Israels / 08.2.18 / 0:20 AM wrote:
If this is something wrong with my system, how can I find out
what it
is and correct it?
Chuck,
My hunch is one of your AU plug-in's copy protection is failing to
return memory space when Finale exits. Finale loads AU even
though it
doesn't allow you to use it. For example, on my setup,
FinMac2008 loads
PACE iLok binary images for MOTU Vis even though you won't be
able to
use them.
You can send me the crash log next time it crashes to me privately.
There is a chance I could see if AU related object making Finale
crash
on quit (called COQ error). If this is the case, you can use
AUManager
to prevent from Finale to load them, which I do.
As to pref being corrupted, I can only guess it might be a Finale
bug,
that is, Finale fails to close pref I/O early enough to protect
it. By
the way, in general, there are two types of pref design. One is
open/
close per app request, and the other is stay open from launch to
ext.
Finale's one seems to be the latter.
But I need a clarification. You said Finale crashes, but the
subject
sez hangs. Which one is it? If it is a SWOD (spinning wheel of
death),
open Activity Monitor, Select Finale process, hit Opt+Cmd+S, save
it to
a text file, and send it to MM!. I haven't learned to analyze
process
threads yet. I wish I could.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>
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