On 19 Jan 2005 at 8:18, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Could there be a problem not only with the File Overwrite bug, but > with the Finale Temp Files getting bloated/corrupted over the course > of an extended Finale session, causing performance degradation AND > problems such as the File Overwrite bug?
There is unquestionably a connection, as the way Finale temp files work is that there is a group of temp files that is shared by all the files that are open. This means that each temp file contains parts of several different files. When it was explained on the list, the justification was that this greatly increased performance when copying between files (since it was all happen within the same temp files). I know of no other applications that use temp files in this fashion, and it seems obvious to me that the pointers that keep track of which pages of which temp files belong to which real files are getting messed up somehow. Of course, identifying the likely cause is likely saying the cause of death of a person was a gunshot to the head -- it still doesn't tell you who pulled the trigger. > Please let me once again repeat my request to do away with temp files > and instead have Finale store that information in RAM -- at least as > an option. (We used to be able to do that in OS 9 with a RAM Disk, > but RAM disks aren't effective in OS X.) RAM disks wouldn't change anything at all, since it would just be moving the temp files from a physical drive to a virtual drive in memory. > It seems like many of the stability and corruption problems in Finale > have to do with the way it handles temp files, which are a bit of an > anachronism in any case. Perhaps some of these problems could be > solved by using RAM instead of disk space? I can't think of any non-trivial application that I use on a regular basis that does not uses temp files. In the case of database applications (which is what Finale is), it's definitely part of the only workable architecture because of commit/rollback issues. In short, there's nothing old-fashioned about temp files at all. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
