Yup, David - I did mention (in my previous e-mail) trying your recommended #s 2 and 3 in addition to trying to save to a disc, but not your #1....
I even tried taking my platform (XP) to a restore point (the previous evening) but even that did no good: the file(s) were still missing and an in-depth search (including hidden files) turned up nothing. Many thanks for suggesting Executive Undelete - it looks/sounds like a great future failsafe. Undelete Pro also looks promising. Thanks, David - as always, your advice is much appreciated. Les Marsden (209) 966-6988 New Cell: (559) 708-6027 7145 Snyder Creek Road 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: David W. Fenton To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Fin08 vs Fin07 On 28 Jun 2008 at 11:30, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: > 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. You didn't mention these things, so I'm wondering if you tried them: 1. export via the MusicXML plugin. 2. SAVE AS new file (that's probably what you mean by "save to disc," I assume). 3. create a new blank document and copy and paste into the new document. All of your problems are the reason I still recommend using an UNDELETE program. Users of the latest version of Mac OS X get this feature out of the box (can't remember what it's called, but it keeps versions of your files for recovery). An undelete program will keep all saved versions of your MUS, BAK and ASV files and you can roll back to any one that has not been cleared from the undelete cache. I use Excecutive Undelete, which has been acquired by somebody and renamed, but a Google search on it still gets you there last time I checked (limited connectivity right now, so can't check for you). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
