At 8:05 -0400 08/05/10, Christopher Smith wrote: >On Sat May 8, at SaturdayMay 8 7:53 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: > >>At 7:25 -0400 08/05/10, Christopher Smith wrote: >>>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 >> >> >>The file name is only 6 chars plus the .mus extension. >>Harold >> > >Okay, that's one theory shot! > >I read after I commented that you use the excellent incremental filename >backup system (filename001, filename002, etc.) but as you noticed, this only >protects you as often as you use it. If you only save each day under a new >name, then you stand to lose up to a day's work. I change the filename almost >every time I save, which might be every ten or fifteen minutes, and my .bak >files and my .asv files provide additional protection. Once the project is >done, I delete most of the extra files, but they are there helping security >during the working phase. > >Christopher
Well, yes, I'm doing just that. I'm up to myFile14 after a couple of hours of work! And I've quit 14 times and started again from the most recent saved copy, save as "myFile(+1)" and work on it. Later I'll trash the older ones, as you do. Thanks for replying. Haroldo _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
