WIN XP.
I have to concur with Chris(Cb)'s estimation (below) with one hugely glaring
exception:
I recently lost a file, completely and totally. And its .BAK. And its .ASV.
Every trace of that file completely disappeared and I've never - in all my
years with Finale - had such an occurrence.
I had been working with this piece off and on for a week - full orchestral
score; while working one day, I hit 'save' but was answered with an error
message and a claim that the Fin tmp file was already in use and that
therefore, the .MUS couldn't be saved. But I had no other applications open;
no other Finale files open. The .ASV and the .BAK disappeared; the only
things left were my empty shortcuts. The ONLY thing remaining was the .MUS
file which with I was working - but all attempts to save it or to create
alternate versions of it failed. I didn't panic (yet) but over the period of
an hour or so tried everything I could imagine to save this file or its
backups. Tried creating a copy of the file and renaming the copy, but: the
perceived unavailability of the tmp file thwarted everything. Couldn't save
to disc, couldn't do a damned thing except: print the score - which I did, as a
.PDF - so that as a last resort I could attempt to recreate the file through
PDFtoMusic.
I performed full, total searches into every damned file in the computer: every
hidden file, EVERYTHING. But that one piece's file and its associated
back-ups were nowhere to be found. Gone, totally. Closed the file in the
hopes that I could reopen it, but it was gone; only the shortcuts remained and
of course: they couldn't locate the files.
The ONLY thing I could do to recreate the file was to use PDFtoMusic - and
import it into Finale. It worked, but of course, because of the score's
complexity I had a few days' worth of work to clean it up.
Hugely frustrating experience, but worse: it created a whole new concern in me
over the potential of future such occurrences. One of my musicians told me
he mentioned this on the Finale Forum a few days after I told him about it and
received a few helpful suggestions - and thanks to any of you who may have
offered them.
So: I upgraded (as I usually do) as soon as 2008 was on sale and yeah - like
Chris, I've found 2008 to be far more stable, the improvements including the
new Selection Tool functionality a nice change - took me about 15 minutes to
get used to it, but now when I work with 2007 or earlier, I really miss the
(semi-) logic of '08, for the most part. And yeah: far more stable except
for the Mystery of the Disappearing File....
Best,
Les
Les Marsden
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Mariposa, CA 95338-9641
Founding Music Director and Conductor,
The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!!
http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.html
http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/lesbio.html
----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Fin08 vs Fin07
>So back to the question at hand. I've heard some comments about problems
>with Fin08 recently on this list, and I'm wondering how it compares to
>Fin07.
All problems I had with 2007 disapeared with 2008. Finale has never been more
stable.
/ Cb
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