Son of a… That's a major, data-erasing bug, and MakeMusic should know of it ASAP. I hope you have opened a tech support case detailing what you told us.
Thanks for tracking this down, and sorry it cost you data. Christopher On Wed Feb 18, at WednesdayFeb 18 2:27 AM, John Roberts wrote: > I had started the thread on AutoSave and I just got a new one. The > message: "The file xxxx could not be Autosaved. This file doesn't > exist." That's the file I am just working on, and had done a Save As to > this name. > > I tracked this down to an illegal filename character (slash), from an > old system of naming files I was still using. Finale will open, work > with, and save files with a slash in the name, but not autosave. > > I should have said before, I'm on an iMac, OSX Yosemite, Finale 2014d. > > The autosave file is deleted when the parent file is closed (as Chuck > says, this seems to be new in 2014). I tried to simulate a crash by > force-quitting Finale. When I reopened Finale the active file opened > when I started the program, with changes that I had not manually saved > but were in the asv file. This would seem to be how it's designed to work. > > I got the same result forcing a crash by manually shutting off the > computer - the file opened as it had been autosaved. If I had crashed > after doing a number of changes I didn't want to keep I would go find > the .bak backup file. This seems to be a good reason to check the Make > Backups When Saving Files prefs option. > > So autosave is now a fully automatic function. If a file has been > autosaved, that's what opens after a crash; you can't open an asv file > as such. If you close your original, the asv goes too. If you > inadvertently close it, too bad. > > And so to bed... > > JR > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
