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DARIUS BLASBAND Posted
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I have Finale 26.0.1.655, running on Windows 10.

I have a piece with just under 400 measures, and I need to split 30-40 of them, not because of layout, but to split bars into two shorter bars.

It worked fine with the first 10 or so, but as I proceeded, Finale got slower and slower, up to a point where splitting a measure using the ad hoc plugin takes minutes.

The resulting file is also inflated from < 400k to >1.300k, just for having 10 measures or so divided into two smaller ones. A bit extreme I would say :-(

 Any idea? Any possible solution? 

More generally, is there a way for me to "clean up" a file, other than MusicXML export and import? A way of removing whatever accumulates while editing a file?

 

Thanks!

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PETER THOMSEN Posted
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Indeed that sounds “a bit extreme”.

 

I suspect some sort of file corruption.

 

Some ideas to try:

 

1) Document menu > Data Check > File Maintenance…

File Maintenance will remove deleted items from the document, thus reducing the file size.

Also, some of the Finale slowness may get reduced when the deleted items have been removed.

 

You can tell Finale to, automatically clean up file data when a document is opened:

Preferences - Open > Clean Up File Data

 

2) Instead of using the Spit Measure plug-in you could also try the older method with Horizontal Split Points.

Since I do not know your actual Finale document, I can not tell whether a better solution would be Horizontal Split Points.

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DARIUS BLASBAND Posted
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Thank you for your comment.

However:

- File maintenance has not found anything to delete

- The Clean Up File Data was already checked :-(

Saving the document in Finale 2012 format reduces it to a more reasonable size (about 300k), but oddly enough, rereading this 2012 format, and saving it using Finale 26 yields a file of over 2MB again. 

 

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