On Fri May 7, at FridayMay 7 11:26 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 7 May 2010, at 11:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
I would hesitate to blame this directly on Finale.
I am pretty sure this is a Finale issue and not an OS issue. I've
never, ever, experienced file corruption using any other Mac OS X
app. But it seems to happen on a fairly regular basis for MacFin
power users. I haven't seen it myself in a few years (knock on
wood) but I know others have, including several Mac users on this
list.
I see it on occasion in AppleWorks 6 as well. (Yes, I still use that
old, old program). I wonder if it is just a coincidence that both
Finale AND AppleWorks 6 are the only two apps I use that don't use
the new Mac OSX filenames correctly (they both stop using Apple
protocols at 32 characters, including the extension and period.) I
would bet dollars to doughnuts that Harold's filename was longer than
32 characters.
It is because of this issue that I managed to overwrite a .mus file
with an audio file created from inside Finale. This is a documented
bug, not addressed yet by MakeMusic except to advise users to save
audio in a different directory than the .mus file resides, or to
confine filenames to 28 characters or fewer, plus the .mus extension.
Christopher
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