On 19 Oct 2005 at 14:15, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
[] > > If this bug has only bitten Mac users, maybe that's because Windows > > users rarely leave a file open for more than a few hours ;-) > > Well, Macs don't crash all that often in these post-OS9 days! Windows machines don't crash much any more, either, not since the end of the dominance of the Win9x versions of Windows. I shut my machine down when I'm not using it simply because it's connected to the Internet 24/7. Yes, I've got a firewall in between my machine and the Internet, but I don't want to take any chances. And the issue of leaving Finale open for long periods of time isn't really a matter of trusting your OS, but a matter of trusting Finale. There have been times when I've left my PC on 24/7, and in those cases my local mail server (running in a low-profile mode as an agent to download my email) was running all that time. It never crashed or caused any problems. But Finale is a completely different animal -- I'd never really think of leaving it open all the time, with a file open in it or not. That's not a matter of mistrust for Windows at all, because NT-based Windows can handle it just fine and remain stable indefinitely. But Finale is not that stable, and I wouldn't trust it at all. [] > Karen had suggested that I reboot once a week at least, and since then > I have rarely seen anything to bother me. She thought that it might be > related to excessive paging, which I understand involves temp files, > so maybe that strengthens the supposition that these bugs are > temp-related. I think you must have misunderstood, because I doubt Karen would have said that. Paging and temp files are about as far about as you can get, since one is part of the OS (paging) and the other is application-specific (temp files). -- 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
