I just experienced about a half dozen successive crashes of Finale
Mac 2k8. Here's what produced them:
Working on a document created from a 2k8 template (a big band chart),
I was copying 32 measures of slashes over hidden rests and the
accompanying chords (from the piano part) vertically into all parts.
All went well until I got to the top 3 staves. Anything I tried
caused the spinning beach ball and froze the program. I tried
choosing smaller samples (a few measures at a time) to no avail.
After a few attempts, simply option clicking in one of the top staves
caused an immediate crash. So I entered rests in those staves and
applied the slash style. Thinking that I'd be more efficient copying
one of those staves with just the slashes into the still empty drum
staff, I selected one of them and option clicked the drum staff -
immediate crash, so the problem went in either direction, copying to
or from any of those staves. By using a filter and only copying the
chords, I was successful at accomplishing the task, but this is
unstable behavior, and I have not seen anything like it in 2007.
This is not the only case of instability I have seen in 2008, it's
just the first one for which I can identify an immediate cause.
I am copying this to MM support.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
230 North Garden Terrace
Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
phone (360) 671-3402
fax (360) 676-6055
www.chuckisraels.com
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