Hello, a strange thing happened today.
I am using Dorico on macOS Tahoe and have all my projects saved on iCloud storage.
Very rarely I open these projects on my iPad, because I don’t feel 100% confident, that a project will save properly again.
Anyway, I have a big project, on which I have worked for a couple of days and I have saved it in a “final” stage for now. I especially avoided to open the project with the iPad.. just saying.
This morning I wanted to open the project again (to compare the notation with some audio recording of it). So I did not go via the hub (I never do), but double clicked the file in the finder. I got this message “there are two … versions of this file, which one do you want to open?” I chose the one with the more recent date (which was also the date my file in the finder was showing) and decided against the older version. After having opened the project and instinctively did a Command-Save I got a shock: this was the project in a state before the final stage! Horror, confusion. Because I saved, I probably overwrote my final project.
Luckily I remembered the other date shown in that message, so I searched in Spotlight to find the “earlier” version - which turned out to be the one in the most advanced stage.
The whole thing might have been caused by a quirk with iCloud synchronisation, I don’t know. That computer is always online, so I don’t understand, why Dorico found two different versions of the project. It might be helpful, if the file paths would be displayed in that message window - but I have the suspicion the warning comes, when both “files” are at the same path.
Sometimes we “Save As..” something, but the computer thinks the original file is still open; so the newer version we close actually looks older.
No idea why.
Don’t know if this has any bearing but file dates can be confusing and even stranger on iPad! There are “Created Dates” and “Modified Dates” and apparently iPad uses something like a “Last Opened Date.” Maybe there’s another one too!
I would advise adding a revision date (or number) to the file name. And for further protection I might go to the iCloud folder and duplicate the file so that there is an extra backup. (I don’t usually keep anything on the cloud, BTW!)
— Jim