I have been updating a piece from FinMac 3.5 to 2K4, and have run into
a problem.
The piece is a song cycle in which each song is in a different file. I
had noticed that all the files open rather sluggishly: it takes a
second or two for the notes to appear after the staff does. This one
file, however (the 8th of 9) will not open at all. When I double-click
it, the staff, clefs, meter appear, and the first couple of bars of
notes, but then nothing but the Spinning Beach Ball of Death. This
hangs the entire computer and I have to force a reboot w. the power
button.
The funny thing is that I did manage to open it, once. It opened very
sluggishly then, and I started the update procedure (Page Setup
settings, a font substitution), and these too proceeded very
sluggishly. Then, before I had saved anything, the computer decided it
had to go on line (why this happens I have no idea), the file vanished
from my screen, and Finale became unwilling to open any other. A simple
restart brought Finale back to normal, but the behavior of the one bum
file has ever since been as described in the previous paragraph.
The file's info panel (or whatever it's called) showed no change in its
condition after the initial disaster, so after one round w. the SBBOD I
went into Classic mode and updated the file from 3.5 to 2K2, hoping
that would leapfrog whatever the problem might be. During this
procedure 2K2 had no trouble at all opening the file, which displayed
no sluggishness whatsoever. I saved the file in 2K2, then went back to
OSX.3 and FinMac 2K4. No joy: the file still behaves as described in my
first paragraph. Finale behaves beautifully w. all other files, so the
problem is clearly in the file itself. How do I either get the thing to
open or get the data out of it into a new file?
FWIMBW, I possess copies of both ResEdit and HexEdit (both OS 9). If
either of these will be of use, please give me very precise
instructions what to do, because I hardly ever use these tools and am
frankly scared to death of them.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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