yesterday i expent the whole day making a piano part to accompany the
second movement of a concerto for cello and violin and at the end of the
day's session, when i was about to make the routine backups of my work,
all but three bars of a 101 bars piece, were gone, disappeared, blank,
erased, non existent, banished...
no matter what i did or tried to do brought back what i had input into
the part...
this isn't the first time something like this happens to me. some three
months ago i was working on a score and somewhere after a lunch brake,
when i reopened it to continue my work i found that the last ten or
twelve pages i had worked on had disappeared, at that time i didn't
report this because i really had serious doubts of my mental sanity, i
said to my self " calm down, this didn't really happened, you just
dreamed that you had worked in the score and that you had input those
pages..." but now, after yesterday's experience i have regained
confidence in myself i tossed away my tricorn hat, pulled my hand out
of my vest and continue with my work...
this is what i use to do my work:
Mac G5 with 4 GB ram
Finale 2006
GPO
Three hard drives, internal and external where i make two backups of
what i do and keep in the main hard drive. i have developed the working
habit of saving almost every time i make an entry and disabled the
"make backups when saving files" option from finale because i don't
trust it and blame it for being somewhat the culprit of the dreaded
overwrite bug. my experience with finale dates back to version 3000.
well i just thought i'd shared this with the list members...
gr
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