Jef,
Autosave is not related to the file overwrite bug. In fact, autosave
can help you tremendously, because the most recently autosaved
version of your conductor score is probably okay.
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 04 Sep 2005, at 7:33 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
finally got bit. macfin 2005r.1
opened an orchestral score, a related extract score and two parts
which had already been extracted and did 3 measures of notehead
changes (using mass edit, partial measures) in all 4 documents.
did a save all. it's very late and i'm trying to remember the
order of things... i think i checked something else without
editing, then when closing the score, the ANNOYING message pop-up -
you know, the one asking if i want to save before closing even
though i hadn't made any changes since manually saving - pops up, i
hit escape, and make a one character text block and immediately
undo before closing (i normally do this - or undo/redo - when i
think i haven't made any changes to the score to avoid having to
deal with the question at all). in the full score, i couldn't get
the view percentage (fit to page width, or fit full page) to work
with the keyboard combination, and the whole programme response
seemed to slow down radically. so i decided to close the document
thinking maybe the system was jammed or something (although i was
running very few applications at the time) and said yes to the pop-
up asking me if i wanted to save the changes. (in hindsight, that
was a bad move.) now the normal response time and keyboard combos
worked, so with the other three docs still open, i opened up the
score again to do the edit i was trying to do when the sluggish
behaviour happened. guess what! X = Y. conductor score
overwritten by the extract score.
of course this happened to the conductor score, and not one of the
parts which i could redo in half an hour... but i do backups
regularily, so i think only minor surgery is necessary, provided i
can remember the small changes i've made in the past 36 hours...
i use auto-save when working on the score, normally turn it off
when doing parts, and had simply forgotten taht this was one of the
things related to the bug and neglected to turn it off. crap.
jef
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