On May 28, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Godofredo Romero wrote:
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
Sorry about your loss.
My understanding is that neither "make backups when saving" NOR "auto
save" is the culprit in the file overwrite bug, because every time it
bit me I was using neither one. Furthermore, Darcy Argue, who had also
gotten this bug, was saved by his auto backup.
Dennis B-K had the best advice that I ever got - incremental saves.
Save As... add a number to the end of the file name, every ten minutes,
twenty minutes, or every hour. So "Name Score.mus" gets saved as "Name
Score 01.mus" then 02, 03, etc. If anything ever happens, I have all
the older versions to draw on, so all is not lost.
Of course, the laws of nature being what they are, I have never once
had to use one of my incremental backups. It's kind of like Mob
"protection" money. Bad things will only happen when you DON'T pay the
protection money! 8-)
Christopher
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