Lost Work Despite Saving

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Linda Vaillancourt Posted November 28, 2018 19:10

Finale 2011

Windows 10 (Education)

I did a lot of work on Finale last night, and I opened it this afternoon to discover that about 80% of my work has vanished. It was a piano-vocal score. Some of the piano measures are still there, but I lost all the vocal measures (the measures are still there, but are now all rests). I am obsessive about saving, so I know this is not an issue of not pressing save. (Also, some of the work that I did later on, such as a time signature change and score format change are still there... but the notes are gone.) The time shown on the "last edited" menu was also the time I would have been finishing up.

Any ideas? Can I recover this? The thought of having to re-do it all makes me sick. Not to mention I am afraid of losing it a second time. I have never had this problem before.

Thanks,

Linda

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MIKE ROSEN Edited November 28, 2018 20:30

Search your computer to see if there is an .asv or .bak version of the file.

it might also be an issue of compatibility. Take a look at

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005249627-MakeMusic-notation-products-s-compatibility-with-Windows-10

J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted November 28, 2018 22:44

Sometimes when I "Save as..." to save a revised version, I find I have somehow saved it to the wrong folder; so I go back to the version I used last and click on "Save as...": just to see which folder it defaults to. It doesn't always work, but i try it anyway.

Hope you find yours.

Linda Vaillancourt Posted November 29, 2018 02:46

Problem solved. The missing notes had been entered as Layer #2. I realized something was odd when I pressed the playback button and I could hear the missing notes, but not see them. I pressed the "2," and everything was back! (OK, the notes are all red, which I do not remember from my initial entry, but I am very happy to have them all back!)

Thanks for your help.

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