Great advice, Christopher (and Dennis) - brilliantly simple. And as I constantly pick my nose AND pee (sometimes simultaneously) I'll certainly increase my odds of ending up with a pretty up-to-date back-up version!
Stupid me: all these years I've actually felt I could trust .asvs and .baks to be there, and have relied upon them many a time. The real irony is that otherwise, '08 has been - if not an absolute joy - at least pretty damned stable and trustworthy. Thanks much, Christopher. You too, B-K! Les Les Marsden (209) 966-6988 New Cell: (559) 708-6027 7145 Snyder Creek Road Mariposa, CA 95338-9641 Founding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Smith To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Fin08 vs Fin07 On Jun 28, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: > > I recently lost a file, completely and totally. And its .BAK. > And its .ASV. Every trace of that file completely disappeared > and I've never - in all my years with Finale - had such an occurrence. While I commiserate completely (this has happened to me before several times, only once was it not my fault, though that doesn't ease the sting) I can suggest a future course of action that is a perfect inoculation against pilot error AND system errors. This is Dennis B-K's procedure. Name the file as you start MyTune001.mus. Every time you stop to pick your nose, think about the next step, or get up to pee, hit command-shift-S (I think in PC it's control-shift-S) to Save As. Change the 001 to 002, hit return. Continue as normal. This extremely simple, extremely effective method means that no matter what goes wrong, other than a total disc meltdown or a house fire, you will have a file to go back to that is no older than your last save. And if you have set your .BAK files to be saved to another drive, even the total disc meltdown is not a disaster. You get 999 saves before you have to add a digit (I have never gotten that far.) Since implementing this method (and it IS automatic after a while) I haven't lost a single file. I have screwed up a few times, and Finale has corrupted the file a few times, and all I do is back up a version and keep going. Even if Finale has corrupted the file, I can often copy the new material from the corrupted file to the older file without copying the corruption over, so it is a win-win situation. Highly recommended. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
