In other words, it's a Finale error, not an OS error. Something went wrong while working with your document in Finale, and after that point, everything you saved, by whatever method (autosave, auto-backup, manual save, Save As, etc) was corrupt.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 7 May 2010, at 10:36 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
