On 23 Nov 2004, at 01:53 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I have now been officially bitten by the File Overwrite bug for the third time. The first time (that I know of) was in FinMac2002, then last year in 2003 (both in System 9.2 for Mac) and now in Fin 2005a running under OSX 10.3.6.
Here's what I did, exactly.
I had opened an older score (apparently this is of some importance), created in 2002 and then edited in 2003, and began to edit some more. I added staves, moved music around, changed notes, dragged various things, changed the title (apparently this is of some importance too), saved it under a new name and then extracted parts using Extract Parts from the File menu.
I left the box checked "open extracted parts" and removed a few words from the file name for the extracted parts, from "Miles Ahead rev 2 score.mus" to "Miles Ah 2" and then left the placeholders for staff name and number intact, so that the first part extracted as "Miles Ah 2 - 001 Flute.mus", for example. I then began checking, formatting and printing parts. My usual routine involves editing the page 2 text blocks to include the instrument name.
I noticed that one part (Vibraphone) had some errors, so I changed it (including staff transposition), printed it, saved it but did not close the window, then went to look for the score window (still open) to make the changes there, too. I completed the changes, re-saved the score, then hit the yellow Minimize button to get it out of my way while I finished the rest of the parts. I closed the Vibraphone window using Command-W, which closed without prompting me (is this unusual? I usually get prompted all the time for unnecessary saves.)
This may be an important detail. Every time I've encountered this bug, Finale has *not* prompted me to save before closing (or quitting) the document (usually a parts file) that overwrites the other document (usually a score file).
I gotta run, but more later. Sad to see this is still a problem.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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