It sounds like file corruption to me. I would run Data Check and see what it says.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:47 PM Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an issue that's a little tricky to explain. > > This weekend I had to go back to a flute/piano score and make a fix where > Finale had twice placed incorrect block rests in the flute part: there were > two block rests (17+2) ignoring 11 measures of notes at the start of the > first > movement and two block rests (26+8) ignoring 24 measures of notes at the > start > of the third movement. > > The score was done in Finale 25.4.1.152 (Windows 10) on 10/31/17. > > I opened the file in Finale 25.5.0.290 to find there was no flute part > present > at all in the parts menu, nor were any parts present in the "manage parts" > dialog. The only thing in the "manage parts" dialog was the title of the > piece. > > However, my properly formatted flute and piano parts *could* be accessed > using > [ctl+alt+.] > > The program had kept the parts but erased their usual access modes. Since I > didn't trust the program to save things properly, I created new parts > (which > destroyed the layout, the separator pages between the movements, and the > title > page). Now re-opening the file properly shows all the parts. > > I'm wondering what might have caused the assignment of a block rests in > place > of notes, and if it might be related to losing the presence of parts. > > I keep numbered backups. #308 was where the parts were first created, and > #321 > was the last. 308-321 were done on the same day without closing the > program, > so if it was some sort of bug, it carried through to when I re-opened and > saved the file as #322 this weekend. > > Has anyone come across something like this? > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
