Re: Back up [extracted from Re: [Finale] Scary bug!]

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
Sorry, Noel, but I have no patience for wasting any more of my time trying to convince you of the obvious. You've made up your mind and you're not going to change. -- David W. Fentonhttp://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associateshttp://www.bway.net/~

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Yeah, please do, esp. if it's a Fin File I'm very curious, about the print quality as well as the compatibility issue. Thanks again, Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Well, in the world of HP printers, I was

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Whoa, I just checked out the prices on the HP 5000 series ... they presently start at around $1400. If I thought I could justify that to my wife, I'd probably do it, however, if the $200 to $300 range printer will give me the quality my old Apple Laserwriter did, I'd be ok with that. Ah

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Well, in the world of HP printers, I was looking at the HP 1022 (about $200), Dean, They just got me one of these for my office at the university. It arrived a couple of days ago, but I have yet to print anything with it. If I get

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Well, in the world of HP printers, I was looking at the HP 1022 (about $200), supposed to support OS 10.3 ... I don't know if that would mean my Tiger which is 10.4.2, I believe would work. It will take up to legal size, which may be ok for my needs. I assume the output quality would be i

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Chuck Israels
Dear Dean, I print my own big band scores - as many as 16 staves, on normal letter size paper in landscape view. But I am not really reading them - just being reminded of what I have written. If I really needed to see shat I was conducting, I'd get some 11x17 paper cut to 11x14 and use

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Again, good info ... if the quality of the image is what I would hope for in a PS laser printer, I probably would only need a max of 8.5x14. However, as I noted earlier, that makes for some pretty small print on a large score. Things to ponder. Thanks again, Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:25

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Good info ... thanks. How do the Fin fonts look when printed? Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:18 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I see your point. Without researching, how much do they get for Laser Printers these days wouldn't necessarily have to be color, if that

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Heh, heh you got that right. I do carry a medicare card. As far as large format goes, the largest I think I would use is legal size for scores. Though, as my present project is 22 staves, legal size means a pretty small print ... something larger would be nice, if it's available. Wha

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I see your point. Without researching, how much do they get for Laser Printers these days wouldn't necessarily have to be color, if that even enters into it anymore? If you don't need 11 x 17 capability (I did), Samsung has an entry level unit (ML 2010) for ab

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I see your point. Without researching, how much do they get for Laser Printers these days wouldn't necessarily have to be color, if that even enters into it anymore? Within the past two weeks, I bought a new Ricoh Aficio AP610 N, monochrome, true 1200 x 1200 d

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread John Howell
At 3:37 PM -0700 10/20/05, Mark D Lew wrote: On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:46 AM, John Howell wrote: Yes, but interestingly enough not in the vowel, which is the same phoneme even though it is written differently, but in the consonants. "Loo-zer" and "Loo-ser." But in conversational speech such det

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Dean, My impression is that the price has come down to $200 - 300 for entry level printers, and that a pretty robust one can be found for around $700. There was discussion here of a particular Ricoh printer that folks liked a while ago. Depends on your needs - whether you need large

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
I see your point. Without researching, how much do they get for Laser Printers these days wouldn't necessarily have to be color, if that even enters into it anymore? Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 20.10.2005 Williams, Jim wrote: Dean... There are parall

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hmmm, I'll check and let you know. Thank you... Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: Dear Dean, Unless the printer has an Ethernet connection, it can cost you a lot to connect the old printer to the iMac G5. Very old Apple LaserWriter printers had Appletalk connections that

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:46 AM, John Howell wrote: Yes, but interestingly enough not in the vowel, which is the same phoneme even though it is written differently, but in the consonants. "Loo-zer" and "Loo-ser." But in conversational speech such details are often passed over, just as unstressed

Re: Back up [extracted from Re: [Finale] Scary bug!]

2005-10-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: 3. I have available to me versions of the files in addition to the files whose names I manually incremented, including every save during a working session (not just the file as it stood at the end of the session). I don't really need _a

Back up [extracted from Re: [Finale] Scary bug!]

2005-10-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: Thanks for the explanation of the executive undelete system. However, the biggest drawback I see to my using it, is this. I recently found myself in the circumstance of having to replace failed hardware, on a _very_ old system (P1, 100mhz). When I discovered that

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 20.10.2005 Williams, Jim wrote: Dean... There are parallel-to-USB adapters especially for printers. I used one on a PC with no problems. I'd assume they are Mac compatible. The one I used was made by Belkin. I've seen 'em in Best Buy and even WalMart. Jim Most Apple printers are not pa

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 16:11, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2005/10/20 / 03:23 PM wrote: > > >Isn't it quite clear? > > I know, I know. I was the only one didn't get it. I didn't think > that way because, altho it has been quite sometime I saw such bug last > time, this kind of data loss

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Javier Ruiz
Yes, perfect! This is the best description of what happened... Many thanks, David! > Hiro, > > As I understand what Javier is saying is that the file loses data. If > he has inadvertently saved it, not realizing there was lost data in > portions not showing on-screen when he saved it, he has als

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Javier Ruiz
Dear Dean, Unless the printer has an Ethernet connection, it can cost you a lot to connect the old printer to the iMac G5. Very old Apple LaserWriter printers had Appletalk connections that only connects to a printer port. Can you tell me the model? [But if the printer has an Ethernet connection

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread Raymond Horton
John Howell wrote: At 12:35 AM -0400 10/20/05, Raymond Horton wrote: Hey folks, One can not "loose" a file. One can "lose" a file. Well, one can, of course, "loose" a file containing a virus or trojan horse, meaning to turn it loose to do its thing. But of course you are correct. The

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2005/10/20 / 03:23 PM wrote: >Isn't it quite clear? I know, I know. I was the only one didn't get it. I didn't think that way because, altho it has been quite sometime I saw such bug last time, this kind of data loss was not new to me. Back in System 6/7 era and DOS era, a lo

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Don Hart
on 10/20/05 2:02 PM, dhbailey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don's and Darcy's point is that if you are aware of the bug BEFORE you > save the file, you can rescue yourself. They don't claim to be able to > revert to a good version if they have already saved a bad version over > the good version.

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 15:08, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > > From a database point of view (and Finale files are database files), > > it's definitely corruption, and of the logical type. There are two > > types of corruption in a database: > > > >

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 15:02, dhbailey wrote: > Don's and Darcy's point is that if you are aware of the bug BEFORE you > save the file, you can rescue yourself. They don't claim to be able > to revert to a good version if they have already saved a bad version > over the good version. And Javier is no

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 7:34, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > >If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and > >worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), would > > you use it? > > I'm always willing to look at something, whether a change

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 14:53, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2005/10/20 / 02:40 PM wrote: > > >Finale files are database files > > It is?! > What is the definition of the database file? > > I don't consider it is a database if you don't push/pop and real-time > data I/O. If real-time data

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
dhbailey / 2005/10/20 / 02:58 PM wrote: >But nobody is trying to say that the bug deletes data from files which >aren't open, and it doesn't delete files from the hard disk. OK, I now feel extremely stoopid not understanding that, but on the other hand, if that is what this thread is about, it i

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 13:08, Don Hart wrote: > I was able to go to the *backup copy made when I last saved* and was > fortunate enough to lose virtually nothing. I found no way to > retrieve the lost data in my original file. The undos I did trying to > rectify the problem (immediately after I notic

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Andrew Stiller wrote: There is a downside however: if you don't rigorously, religiously, follow all the necessary steps required for this system, you can end up with what I constantly get from this composer in Malta: revisions applied to an outdated version of the score. OK. I'm not quite

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 13:43, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/20 / 01:13 PM wrote: > > >But, Hiro, it looks like you don't want to admit the possibility of > >this. > > No, no. You are completely misunderstanding my point. I want the > fact straight because both Don and Darcy said clo

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 12:50, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/20 / 12:41 PM wrote: > > >Yes, Hiro is right. The files are not corrupted, they are simply > >wiped out. Cero. Sayonara. > > What do you mean by this? > Both Don and Darcy said otherwise. They said they were able to go > back

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: From a database point of view (and Finale files are database files), it's definitely corruption, and of the logical type. There are two types of corruption in a database: 1. logical corruption 2. content corruption. Logical corruption mea

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/20 / 01:13 PM wrote: But, Hiro, it looks like you don't want to admit the possibility of this. No, no. You are completely misunderstanding my point. I want the fact straight because both Don and Darcy said closing without save will get you last

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread dhbailey
Hiro, As I understand what Javier is saying is that the file loses data. If he has inadvertently saved it, not realizing there was lost data in portions not showing on-screen when he saved it, he has also overwritten the last-good-version of the file. So all he is left with is the one with

RE: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Williams, Jim
Dunno...not a Mac user...all I can say is--worked fine on 98 and 98SE. Try www.belkin.com. and snoop around! Good luck! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dean M. Estabrook Sent: Thu 20-Oct-05 13:21 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Printing Question

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2005/10/20 / 02:40 PM wrote: >Finale files are database files It is?! What is the definition of the database file? I don't consider it is a database if you don't push/pop and real-time data I/O. If real-time data I/O then I will agree it is a corruption, but Finale file is not

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread dhbailey
Javier Ruiz wrote: [Since MakeMusic Inc. Answered to my request I guess I can post again ;) ] Yes, Hiro is right. The files are not corrupted, they are simply wiped out. Cero. Sayonara. [BTW Finale is _not_ aware of the problem. And they are not making a refund because I bought it 2 months ago

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 7:03, Phil Daley wrote: > At 10/20/2005 12:31 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and > >worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), > would >you use it? > > Yes, is there one? > > I used to use

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Oct 2005 at 5:56, Bernard Savoie wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hiro wrote: > > > > One more thing. Even though the bug of loosing data is pretty bad, > > you can't call it file corruption unless the file cannot be opened > > without error message. > > S

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! How do I reproduce?

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I wrote: >> You said >> closing the file without saving won't get you entries back. Which then Darcy replied: >No, I didn't -- I think you must have misunderstood. I said that >undoing -- even to the end of the undo tree -- won't get the entries >back. This made me believe the data is fine if

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread John Howell
At 1:12 PM -0400 10/20/05, Phil Daley wrote: At 10/20/2005 12:40 PM, John Howell wrote: The two words allow us greater precision in writing although the difference might not always be audible in speech. Oh, I think it would. If you called someone a "loser" or a "looser", wouldn't there be an

Re: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hey, thanks. Now, if I get connected, what are the chances of my new computer talking to my old printer (driver-wise, etc.)? Dean On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Williams, Jim wrote: Dean... There are parallel-to-USB adapters especially for printers. I used one on a PC with no problems. I'd

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Don Hart
Let me clarify, at least for myself - and I'm sorry if I was unclear at any point. I was able to go to the *backup copy made when I last saved* and was fortunate enough to lose virtually nothing. I found no way to retrieve the lost data in my original file. The undos I did trying to rectify the

RE: [Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Williams, Jim
Dean... There are parallel-to-USB adapters especially for printers. I used one on a PC with no problems. I'd assume they are Mac compatible. The one I used was made by Belkin. I've seen 'em in Best Buy and even WalMart. Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of D

[Finale] Printing Question

2005-10-20 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
I'm using an ink jet printer with my new iMac G5, does a lot of things well, but printing music aint one of them. I also have an old Apple Laserwriter which makes beautiful copies of Fin files. It, of course, does not have USB connections. Is there a way I can print a file from my new iMa

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/20 / 01:13 PM wrote: >But, Hiro, it looks like you don't want to admit the possibility of this. No, no. You are completely misunderstanding my point. I want the fact straight because both Don and Darcy said closing without save will get you last saved version back, while

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Javier Ruiz
I meant that complete portions, parts, fragments of the work you had been working on simply disappear. Not all the music only 100 bars or so in my case. I am sorry, I am Spanish and I probably don't use the proper expressions to explain the problem. The files themselves do not look to be corrupted

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/20/2005 12:40 PM, John Howell wrote: >The two words allow us greater precision in writing >although the difference might not always be audible in speech. Oh, I think it would. If you called someone a "loser" or a "looser", wouldn't there be an audible speech difference? Phil Daley

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/20/2005 12:41 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: >[Since MakeMusic Inc. Answered to my request I guess I can post again ;) ] > >Yes, Hiro is right. The files are not corrupted, they are simply wiped out. I guess "corrupted" means "damaged so badly that they cannot be reloaded". So, if you have a file

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Javier Ruiz / 2005/10/20 / 12:41 PM wrote: >Yes, Hiro is right. The files are not corrupted, they are simply wiped out. >Cero. Sayonara. What do you mean by this? Both Don and Darcy said otherwise. They said they were able to go backed to last saved, as the same as you lost your work when comput

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread John Howell
At 12:35 AM -0400 10/20/05, Raymond Horton wrote: Hey folks, One can not "loose" a file. One can "lose" a file. Well, one can, of course, "loose" a file containing a virus or trojan horse, meaning to turn it loose to do its thing. But of course you are correct. The two words allow us grea

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Javier Ruiz
[Since MakeMusic Inc. Answered to my request I guess I can post again ;) ] Yes, Hiro is right. The files are not corrupted, they are simply wiped out. Cero. Sayonara. [BTW Finale is _not_ aware of the problem. And they are not making a refund because I bought it 2 months ago...Hint, hint!] Salud

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: There has been a side benfit to this technique. On more than one occasion, I was able to avoid spending a great deal of time and effort removing items in a file when a client changed his mind about how he wanted an item, simply by going ba

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Bernard Savoie / 2005/10/20 / 05:56 AM wrote: >Sorry to disagree with this one, corrupt for me means that the file >does not deliver the material which was saved to it, whether you get >an error message or not. Wait! I think many, many people are confused here. Both Darcy and Don said the la

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/20/2005 08:34 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >David W. Fenton wrote: > >>If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and >>worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), would >>you use it? > >I'm always willing to look at something, whether a change in pro

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), would you use it? I'm always willing to look at something, whether a change in procedure, or acquisition of a new software item that w

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! How do I reproduce?

2005-10-20 Thread Don Hart
Phil, For some reason I read your post as tongue in cheek. Please accept my apology. Don Hart on 10/20/05 5:52 AM, Phil Daley at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 10/19/2005 01:56 PM, Don Hart wrote: > >> You're a little eager to start an OS war, aren't you? > > Actually, I was saying that Mac

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! How do I reproduce?

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/19/2005 01:56 PM, Don Hart wrote: >You're a little eager to start an OS war, aren't you? Actually, I was saying that Mac users have more faith in Apple than Windows users have in Microsoft. Therefore, the slap was at Windows, which is my OS of choice. And most people on this list must

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/20/2005 12:31 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: >If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and >worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), would >you use it? Yes, is there one? I used to use Norton Undelete on WinNT but it stopped working on Win2K. Phi

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Bernard Savoie
On Oct 19, 2005, at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hiro wrote: One more thing.  Even though the bug of loosing data is pretty bad, you can't call it file corruption unless the file cannot be opened without error message. Sorry to disagree with this one, corrupt for me means that the file does not d

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Bernard Savoie
on 19/10/2005 Johannes Gebauer wrote: I don't get it: If I have a backup from yesterday, why would any more  than the work from today get lost? It makes no difference whether I  already have half the opera done, I will never loose any more than what  I did since I last backed up to the external dri

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! loose a file? or lose a file?

2005-10-20 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 20.10.2005 Raymond Horton wrote: One can not "loose" a file. One can "lose" a file. One could loosen a tie, so it is then loose. One could then take the tie off, and then lose it. It's been bothering me all over the Internet, and I'm thinking that this is the only place where people are sm