This is becoming not only a frustrating issue, but also an expensive one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any help will not only be immensely appreciated, but will probably preserve my sanity as well.
Crashes and Failure to Save
Moderators: Peter Thomsen, miker
Using Finale 2012 for PC, this has occurred several times with no explanation. I will be scoring, regularly auto-saving as well as manually saving my work every few minutes, composing often for over an hour or more, when Finale crashes and all the work that I have done has disappeared. In some cases, when I go to reboot and restart Finale, when I go to open the most recently edited file through the "Open Recent File" feature, it doesn't appear at all.
This is becoming not only a frustrating issue, but also an expensive one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any help will not only be immensely appreciated, but will probably preserve my sanity as well.
This is becoming not only a frustrating issue, but also an expensive one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any help will not only be immensely appreciated, but will probably preserve my sanity as well.
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Peter Thomsen
- Posts: 6626
- Joined: Fri Jul 25, 2003 6:47 pm
- Finale Version: Finale v27.4
- Operating System: Mac
If I understand you correctly, you are using Finale's "built in" autosave feature.Merbert wrote:Using Finale 2012 for PC, this has occurred several times with no explanation. I will be scoring, regularly auto-saving as well as manually saving my work every few minutes…
An idea:
Disable Finale's autosave feature, and save only manually.
Finale's autosave sometimes kicks in at an inconvenient moment when Finale is busy doing something else - and that is a known culprit of crashes.
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996
Thank you Peter. I have been manually and auto-saving, and the manual saves disappeared as well. It's certainly a counter-intuitive fix! I'll try it tonight as I am up against a deadline.Peter Thomsen wrote:If I understand you correctly, you are using Finale's "built in" autosave feature.Merbert wrote:Using Finale 2012 for PC, this has occurred several times with no explanation. I will be scoring, regularly auto-saving as well as manually saving my work every few minutes…
An idea:
Disable Finale's autosave feature, and save only manually.
Finale's autosave sometimes kicks in at an inconvenient moment when Finale is busy doing something else - and that is a known culprit of crashes.
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istpoir
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:08 pm
- Finale Version: Finale 2012 MAC
- Operating System: Windows
I just experienced problems while making minor changes to a file that I had successfully saved previously. When I tried to save my changes I got a message saying there was a problem trying to open TemporaryFileSave. I had to select DoNotSave in order to exit; I figured I would simply open the previously saved file again and redo my minor changes. However, now the file has completely disappeared. The bak.mus file is a much, much older version. Ack - has this file really been wiped out for good?