Error -56

[Lamondera]

Hello, I have been editing a quite large file (3+ Mb) and now when I'm trying to edit something (lyrics, in FiguredBass font) the program crashes, and when I try to restart Finale it gives "Error -56".
The file won't open, unless I restart the PC, and then I can open the file, but when I try to edit it, it crashes again.
Please help me as this is a huge job!
Thanks
Simone

[johnmouse]

Have you tried opening a backup file (bakx)? Rename it to something else (myfile ver2), save as musx then try working on that one.

[Bill Stevens]

If you can open the file, then before trying to edit it do what Johnmouse suggested and save it using a different name. I don't know if this works for Windows, but on a Mac another trick is to export the file as XML and then import it into a new document.

::: Bill

[ebiggs1]

The file won't open, unless I restart the PC, and then I can open the file, but when I try to edit it, it crashes again.

I assume you are on a Windows machine? Not a Mac where the OS can be the problem. I can tell you how I have mine set up which has been very stable and no errors. Again, Windows machine. I have two drives in my system. Finale itself lives on the C: drive which is pretty standard. I tell Finale to put everything that is saved on the D: drive. That is all the .musx files and the autosave, backups, and most importantly the temp folder. You must set these up in the Edit>Preferences tool. Make sure you define the paths accurately.

If your huge file has movements or reasonable places where it can be broken up into separate smaller files I would do that, also.

[motet]

You might try this if the .bakx solution doesn't work:

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... inale-etc-