On 19 Oct 2005 at 8:56, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 19.10.2005 David W. Fenton wrote: > > In that case, you *could* lose months of work -- all that's > > necessary is a second forced save after the bug has struck to wipe > > out both your Finale file and the backup copy. The autosave won't > > help you if it kicks in *after* the bug has struck. > > I don't understand, how could it loose months of work when I have > backups to external media done every few days?
That assumes that all those backups are viable. > Yes, there is a slight chance that it may affect the file itself, the > backup save and the autosave, but chances for this to happen are not > great. And even then I am only going to loose what, a day? Life still > goes on. The chances of that happening are, I think, much more likely than you think. What if the data deleted is off-screen? You could blithely continue working and manually saving and end up with corrupted file, corrupted AutoSave and corrupted backup file. Then you'd *have* to revert to your last backup. You have them, Johannes, but some people won't have them, and that means the potential loss of quite a lot of work. For a software to say "well, you can't lose much data with this bug if you have been backing up to external media every day" is really not acceptable, don't you think? -- 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
