I sent this reply direct to Andrew because I didn't see that he'd replied onlist. So, I'm forwarding the reply to the list.
Apologies to Andrew for the duplication. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Finale] new computer... Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:41:15 -0400 On 21 Apr 2002, at 10:05, Andrew Stiller wrote: > I'm going to try to follow the new system when I port Finale over to the > new machine, but frankly I don't know which folder to put many things in. > Aren't there a lot of "documents" that have to be in the same folder as the > Finale app? Good question. Your preferences obviously have to be in the Finale folder (or is it in your preferences folder? I've only read about this, so forgive me if I got it wrong), but the data stored there is specific to you, not a program component. Also, your templates and any plugins you might have acquired on your own would also sort of count as user data. Basically, I treat as data anything created by the program that is a file I have explicitly created. That is, it didn't exist until I created it. For backups, though, I tend to also backup my program files, but only the files that have changed since the last full backup. This means that only the files holding application settings, preferences, etc., get backed up from the program folders. YMMV, naturally, and it will depend on the capabilities of your backup software. I'm a lot less worried about the program settings than I am about the data files, but your carefully tweaked template files, though stored in the program folders, really do constituted user data, and would be very hard to recreate. On the other hand, they don't change often (just like the data in the program folders), so the occasional program folder backup might suffice. ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
