Robert, I already had. It offered nothing.
Fortunately there was only one part to rebuild. I just hope this isn't a new "feature". (Whatever happened to good ol' ASCII format .etf files we could comb through for clues!) Dennis On Mon, April 1, 2019 6:34 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: > It sounds like file corruption to me. I would run Data Check and see what > it says. > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:47 PM Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bath...@maltedmedia.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have an issue that's a little tricky to explain. >> >> This weekend I had to go back to a flute/piano score and make a fix where >> Finale had twice placed incorrect block rests in the flute part: there were >> two block rests (17+2) ignoring 11 measures of notes at the start of the >> first >> movement and two block rests (26+8) ignoring 24 measures of notes at the >> start >> of the third movement. >> >> The score was done in Finale 25.4.1.152 (Windows 10) on 10/31/17. >> >> I opened the file in Finale 25.5.0.290 to find there was no flute part >> present >> at all in the parts menu, nor were any parts present in the "manage parts" >> dialog. The only thing in the "manage parts" dialog was the title of the >> piece. >> >> However, my properly formatted flute and piano parts *could* be accessed >> using >> [ctl+alt+.] >> >> The program had kept the parts but erased their usual access modes. Since I >> didn't trust the program to save things properly, I created new parts >> (which >> destroyed the layout, the separator pages between the movements, and the >> title >> page). Now re-opening the file properly shows all the parts. >> >> I'm wondering what might have caused the assignment of a block rests in >> place >> of notes, and if it might be related to losing the presence of parts. >> >> I keep numbered backups. #308 was where the parts were first created, and >> #321 >> was the last. 308-321 were done on the same day without closing the >> program, >> so if it was some sort of bug, it carried through to when I re-opened and >> saved the file as #322 this weekend. >> >> Has anyone come across something like this? >> >> Thanks, >> Dennis >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
