Hi Harold, The file corruption occurred while the document was open, at least 20 minutes before you had to Force Quit. File corruption is invisible -- there is no way to tell it has happened until you try to open files that have been saved after the corruption has occurred. You can continue to work for quite a long time after file corruption occurs, and from your perspective, everything seems normal. That's what's so scary about it.
- DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 7 May 2010, at 10:11 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: > Yes, and I am aware of that, but what I don't understand is why three backups > of the corrupted file went bad all at once. As I was working on the score, I > had three backups, one of them was the auto saved ".asv.mus", saved just a > few minutes before. Finale became irresponsive and I had to force quit. When > I tried to open the file, after restart, I got the error message. So I double > clicked first the "asv.mus" backup, which gave me the same error (weird...) > then I tried a "saved as" from about 10 minutes before, with no luck, and > then a backup on another disk, of about 20 minutes before. Same error -39 in > all files. Any ideas? > > Haroldcopy > > > At 21:06 -0400 07/05/10, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> Guys, >> >> Haroldo is suffering from file corruption (error. -39). A quick search of >> http://support.apple.com reveals the following: >> >> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA46648?viewlocale=en_US >> >>> The -39 error is an "End Of File" error. The most likely cause of the error >>> is a corrupt data file. The only real fix is to restore the data file from >>> a backup or recreate it if there isn't a good backup available. >> >> >> No amount of disk repair is going to help. Those files are toast. He is, >> unfortunately, SOL. >> >> All he can do is revert to an earlier version, which he has already done. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> On 7 May 2010, at 8:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >> >>> Repairing permissions isn't going to help >>> >>> Reboot, hold down APPLE and the S key and do the fsck it says to do. >>> >>> >>> On May 7, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: >>> >>>> At 19:08 -0400 07/05/10, dhbailey wrote: >>>>> Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: >>>>>> Yes, I do have a copy "saved as". I said that on my post. It gives the >>>>>> same error. All three files give the same error: the main file, the >>>>>> ".asv" copy and the "saved as" copy. It seems as if although the file >>>>>> was still open, it was already corrupted when both copies were made. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Have you rebooted your computer since that started happening? >>>>> >>>>> I don't know Macs at all, but I do recall reading about having Mac users >>>>> "trash their preferences" as a solution to several different problems, >>>>> and perhaps that might help here? Just a thought. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> I did reboot, I trashed the preferences file, I repaired the permissions. >>>> I also had a fourth back up copy on an external disk which also gives me >>>> the same error. All together there are four copies of documents corrupted, >>>> showing the same error (-39) and they all are zero KB. I did back up my >>>> work, because this happened before, but it seems it is no use backing up >>>> any way. The latest usable copy I have is one I "saved as" yesterday , >>>> with a different name. But today's work is gone, many hours of it. Thanks >>>> for replying. >>>> Harold >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
