NoteWorthy Composer Forum

You can only attach files if you are a NWC2 tester.  To be one, you must obtain the full edition, and then register.

Particularly if the nearsightedness involves a cataract too.

To quote one website,
It's not painful itself but interferes badly with vision.  It's low risk day surgery and involves replacing the lens with a plastic one.  It's apparently the most common surgery done in North America, done about 1,500,000 times a year in North America.

It really sucks during band.  With bifocals, only part of the field of vision of my good eye can read the chart and watch the conductor.  Playing bass clarinet enhances the challenge since the crook is at eye level.  I don't use a spike, so the neckstrap restricts my movement a bit, interfering with my ability to change the angle I look at the music. 

More than you cared to know, I bet!

Yes, well, I started to develop a cataract in the patched eye last autumn.  My vision in that eye has worsened badly, but I expect to have it repaired next year...

I'm not a professor, I just have a beard and glasses.  I'm an amateur musician.  Very amateur.  I don't mind hearing/looking at your chart, but you'd be better off posting it on one of the NWC Newsgroups, where most of the active reviews of works in progress take place by people who are far better qualified than me.

But if your CAPSLOCK is stuck, you may have no choice.

LEIonsay, congratulations for your good humour.  Anyone who reads your message will hear your pain.  We've all been there, in one program or another.

I can't really help you get your work back, but K.A.T.'s suggestion will hopefully help.

I suggest you get away from the mouse if you can.  It isn't the best way to input music in NWC.  If you go for keyboard entry, it's easy to make a habit to automatically, every five minutes or so, or when you've finished a particularly painstaking segment, use the key combination Alt-File-Save. 

If you're reworking something, use Alt-File-SaveAs instead, and change the file name.  Instead of My Best Song Ever.nwc, you would make it My Best Song Ever2.nwc.  The next time, My Best Song Ever3.nwc, etc. 

Then when you decide you don't like what you've notated the last hour or so, you can pick up from where you were a few files ago, rather than starting all over again.

Go to
Tools
  Options...
File tab
You should see
Create Backup Files
If this box is checked/ticked, then you have not lost as much as you think you have.
You also should see
Frequency (in minutes): 15
so the most you could have lost would be 15 minutes worth of work.
You simply need to open the .bak file and most of what you've done will be there.
Now, if the box is unchecked...


p.s. If you don't use the mouse and press Y (for "Yes"), you won't need to worry about the unexpected sneeze, or the twitches that we older folks get...

So, LEIonsay, did you rename the .BAK file to .NWC - and did you find your precious work back?