Yikes! -Randolph Peters
Christopher Smith wrote: > I just experienced the file overwrite bug again, after several versions > without seeing it. Here is the tech support message I sent: > > I just had a Finale file overwritten by the contents of another Finale file. > Disaster was averted by the last backup being okay still, but I thought you > guys should know about this potentially devastating bug. > > The scenario was the same as almost every time this bug has gotten me. I had > a file open and was working on it when I opened another file with a different > title. Both files had been created brand new from inside 2010, though I had > previously imported a library for the second file. > > I made some layout edits for File 2 (called Wedding Song here) printed one > part to PDF, saved and closed the window. I noticed that the window for File > 1 (called Mi Chamocha v.1 SATBcant.mus here) had closed, and supposed that I > had accidentally hit command-W twice in close succession. When I reopened Mi > Chamocha however, it had the contents of Wedding Song in it! I never saved > as... nor changed any filename, nor even saw the file selector window (except > to save the PDF.) > > This is exactly the same thing that used to happen to me in old versions of > Finale when I had two files open at once. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
