Hi Hiro,
Well, for the first time in a long time, I was able to get Finale to
quit without incident. (I am up at 3 in the morning for no reason I
can identify, and Finale has been closed and resting awhile.) The
more frequent behavior is that it hangs - the screen goes blank, but
Finale remains open, preventing restarts etc. It then becomes
necessary to force quit. After force quitting, Finale will not re-
open. It hangs up near the beginning of the process, and you get the
spinning wheel of death. Only trashing and replacing the preferences
will allow Finale to open again.
Another thing I notice is that occasionally, while I am working on a
file, Finale will lose the Automatic Update Layout preference. I have
not been able to identify what makes that happen, but I usually notice
it while editing parts and using TGTools - Modify/Transfer to move the
layout of one part to another. This plugin will only function
correctly when Auto Update Layout is on.
I don't know what AUManager is - or even what AU is.
Thanks for your help.
Chuck
On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Chuck Israels / 08.2.18 / 0:20 AM wrote:
If this is something wrong with my system, how can I find out what it
is and correct it?
Chuck,
My hunch is one of your AU plug-in's copy protection is failing to
return memory space when Finale exits. Finale loads AU even though it
doesn't allow you to use it. For example, on my setup, FinMac2008
loads
PACE iLok binary images for MOTU Vis even though you won't be able to
use them.
You can send me the crash log next time it crashes to me privately.
There is a chance I could see if AU related object making Finale crash
on quit (called COQ error). If this is the case, you can use
AUManager
to prevent from Finale to load them, which I do.
As to pref being corrupted, I can only guess it might be a Finale bug,
that is, Finale fails to close pref I/O early enough to protect it.
By
the way, in general, there are two types of pref design. One is open/
close per app request, and the other is stay open from launch to ext.
Finale's one seems to be the latter.
But I need a clarification. You said Finale crashes, but the subject
sez hangs. Which one is it? If it is a SWOD (spinning wheel of
death),
open Activity Monitor, Select Finale process, hit Opt+Cmd+S, save it
to
a text file, and send it to MM!. I haven't learned to analyze process
threads yet. I wish I could.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>
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