There is no exact type of error that I have positively identified, but
I will give you some examples of what I think may have done it.
1. For instance, if I am working in 4/4 and have occasional measures
in 6/8. I decide to insert these 15 or so measures into the piece
later on. I copy it
and inadvertently insert it into a section with 4/4 measures only, the
results can be disasterous, especially if I have been negligent enough
to have
partial measures selected. (am way back on v. 2002). I may not
discover that the staves are now out of proper barring and can have
particularly misalignment between staves. If I get it all corrected
and save it, I may then find that the file is corrupted. ( I can
believe it, too)
2. Changes using partial measures seems to be an issue if the
alignment between staves becomes out of sync. and I correct it. I do
not know
how this works in the newer versions of Finale.
3. Inadvertently having copied and pasted one meter into another
meter, discovering the error later and restoring the proper barring,
seems a possible problem
in file corruption.
4. Anytime I copy, using partial measure, into another part of the
score and have not copied the complete measure, it puts the stave out
of alignment from then
on to the next black measure in that staff. Correcting this, can
corrupt the file, IMHO.
There may be other things as well, but these are related operations I
have done in the past and lost the file through -39.
But fortunately, going to the previous day's file, I can redo the
score to the form I had finally arrive at, and do it quickly with no
errors.
tim
On May 8, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Fri May 7, at FridayMay 7 7:17 PM, timothy price wrote:
I have experience the same problem in the past and it has happened
when I have somehow messed up by doing illegal commands, or simply
made
unreasonable requests, I guess you could say, with tools or mass
mover or such.
First of all Harold, so sorry to hear of your problems, and I am
more sorry that I don't have anything to add to finding a solution.
But Tim, what would constitute an "illegal command" or an
"unreasonable request" if you are using Finale commands from the
menu and keyboard shortcuts? I would expect the program to treat my
data with the utmost caution to preserve it. If there is a command
or series of commands that you know of that causes data loss, I
would take it upon myself to tell MakeMusic as soon as possible.
Can you let us know what has caused this for you?
Thanks
Christopher
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