At 7:25 -0400 08/05/10, Christopher Smith wrote: >On Fri May 7, at FridayMay 7 11:26 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > >>On 7 May 2010, at 11:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: >> >>>I would hesitate to blame this directly on Finale. >> >>I am pretty sure this is a Finale issue and not an OS issue. I've never, >>ever, experienced file corruption using any other Mac OS X app. But it seems >>to happen on a fairly regular basis for MacFin power users. I haven't seen it >>myself in a few years (knock on wood) but I know others have, including >>several Mac users on this list. > >I see it on occasion in AppleWorks 6 as well. (Yes, I still use that old, old >program). I wonder if it is just a coincidence that both Finale AND AppleWorks >6 are the only two apps I use that don't use the new Mac OSX filenames >correctly (they both stop using Apple protocols at 32 characters, including >the extension and period.) I would bet dollars to doughnuts that Harold's >filename was longer than 32 characters. > >It is because of this issue that I managed to overwrite a .mus file with an >audio file created from inside Finale. This is a documented bug, not addressed >yet by MakeMusic except to advise users to save audio in a different directory >than the .mus file resides, or to confine filenames to 28 characters or fewer, >plus the .mus extension. > >Christopher
The file name is only 6 chars plus the .mus extension. Harold _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
