You have mistaken my tone, David: I agree with you!! This number ballet is fraught with dangers.
(And no, I don't believe you can still use a floppy to do this) Alan Smith On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 11:29 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > Okay, so the exact mechanism isn't a floppy all the time -- but it CAN > be, can't it? > > You mention saving the file with a "saving out" feature which means > that you get some number and then on your other machine you have to > enter the number before you can save your new edits. And then you have > to remember to do it again before you can bring the file back to your > first computer? Now if you DO save your file to a floppy from one > computer and then find that the floppy is unreadable on either > computer, can you still work with the copy of your file which is still > on your first computer, or does making the file portable somehow > cripple the first computer's version, just in case you are a nefarious > criminal type that might actually be running an engraving sweatshop off > of one copy of Sibelius? > > So what happens if you forget to write the number down, save the file > to movable media, power down the computer and then try to work with the > file on your other computer? Is the number a constant, so that file > will always work with the same number, so you could embed it into the > file name, or is it randomly generated each time, so if your file is in > limbo as I just outlined and when you go back to power up your second > computer you find that the motherboard has fried and you can't get it > started? Are you then stuck with your first symphony of 1000 measures, > all but completed and a week away from first rehearsal, in an unusable > form? > > -- David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
