Is this the "File Overwrite" bug (which I've never experienced) or is this the "Scary" bug which I reported last fall, which indeed, scared me into continuing to use 2005 until about two months ago. I've heard that the bug I reported (along with Darcy and Javier Ruiz) was fixed in, I believe, 2006c.
I thought the "File Overwrite" bug occurred when multiple files were open at one time. The "Scary" bug struck (nearly wiped clean) a file I had orchestrated after I deleted the contents of a guide piano part. As far as I could tell, it had nothing to do with the "File Overwrite" bug. I posted a little more about it last fall: > I was able to go to the backup copy made when I last saved and was fortunate > enough to lose virtually nothing. (because when I first noticed the lost data I made sure I didn't hit command s, and save the problem) > I found no way to retrieve the lost data in my original file. The undos I did > trying to rectify the problem (immediately after I noticed it) went up to and > beyond the point in time the problem occurred and never brought back the > stricken data. So, Godofredo, this begs the following questions: which version of 2006 for the mac are you using, and from my limited description of these two bugs, does either seem to describe your problem? I suppose that if you don't have 2006c you should probably download and install that free update. I guess there's also a "d" update addressing some mac-intel issues; that's not a worry for me yet. Don Hart on 5/30/06 10:39 AM, Christopher Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
