Sibelius won't save

[Alexis]

I have Sibelius 5, running on a mac OSX. The save has been working fine up until recently. When I try to save something, I get to the save screen and make sure it has the .sib extension and hit save. I look in the folder and it's not there.

The auto save is working fine, but when I try to do "save as" it doesn't work. Same goes for export; I can't export anything as midi, etc.

It's really strange because it was working fine for quite awhile and it just won't save things anymore. It's a registered copy of Sibelius, not a trial.

Pleaaaase help!

[Moseph]

Have you tried searching the hard drive for the file you attempted to save? It's possible that it's somehow getting put in the wrong place.

EDIT: Actually, this sounds like it could be a permissions problem. If you haven't already done so, you should repair your permissions in OSX. If you don't know how to do that, follow the directions here (http://kb.iu.edu/data/aoxn.html).

[Alexis]

Yeah, I searched my entire computer, it doesn't save the files anywhere.

I did the repair permissions thing but it didn't do anything.

basically what happens is i type in the file name, hit save, and the box goes away, but it doesn't actually save.

It also won't load previously saved music either.

[Moseph]

Have you tried reinstalling?

[Alexis]

Well I've been avoiding that because it takes forever, but it might be my only option left I think.

Thanks for your advice!

[phill]

It has been a while since I last worked with macs but should there not be a log showing application errors and such.

[Gondooley]

If you haven't heard already, Sibelius 4 and 5 ceased to work properly with the Mac OS operating system when it updated Mac OS X to version 5 (Leopard).

All you should need to fix it is here:

http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/leopard.html