> >> Today, I tried to delete one measure, at m133 in the first act, using the > >> Measure Tool delete command. It took Finale over 11 minutes to complete the > >> edit. Then an immediate save took nearly 3 minutes. Subsequent saves take > >> about 45 seconds. Saving a backup copy in Finale is off.
Just to let you know that you're not alone - I've found that doing extensive cutting, pasting and deleting in a score causes incredible slowdowns, and you mention that you've been doing edits for the composer. I decided for one piece (a string quartet) to try working entirely within Finale, and thus was copying, inserting, deleting etc. with the Mass Mover tool all over the place. Not recommended - apart from Finale corrupting the file several times, and doing things like copying and inserting 99% of a bar length rather than 100% causing consequent rhythmic chaos, it got to the point whereby even going from one note to another in speedy entry could cause a minute delay. This was in a piece of about 500 bars using Finale 2002, but there were many, many edits before that point. Perhaps what we need is some sort of 're-order entries' function within Finale to correct such faults without having to copy everything into a new file. Matthew _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale