johannes suggested: >You should rebuild your desktop: restart while holding down Option and >Command, until a dialog comes up whether you want to rebuild your desktop >file. >This will probably fix the problem of the wrong Finale version opening when >you double click a file.
but then again, it might not... if it doesn't: >Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 04:13:02 -0500 >From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Finale] [ot] rebuild desktop mac > >At 1:38 pm +0200 9/2/02, jef chippewa wrote: > >>i did this, hoping to speed things up on the g4, based on comments >>recently posted here, and now every time i try to double-click a >>finale file, it tries to open it through f2000 [i have 2001d >>installed]. >> >>should i rebuild again? or is something else likely to be the culprit? > >Jef -- > >(I'm assuming that you have both f2000 and f2001 on disks attached to the g4, though >your message doesn't make that explicit.) > >When the desktop rebuilds it binds documents to the first application found (or the >last one, or the one last modified, or a voodoo dice roll, depending on your System >version). Your best bet is to use StuffIt, or something similar, to pack your f2000 >application -- that hides the fact that it's an application from the Finder/System. >Then you can rebuild your desktop and _all_ of your Finale documents will bind to >f2001d. After that you can un-stuff your f2000 application and use it when you need >to. > >You cannot have some documents automatically open with f2000 and some documents >automatically open with f2001 unless you do some semi-serious surgery on one of the >applications with ResEdit or similar and modify the documents (unless Coda changed >the Finale TYPE while I wasn't looking). > >By the way: The usual advice is to rebuild the desktop by holding down the Command >and Option keys while restarting (or using System Preferences > Classic under OS X). >Command-Option seems to work fairly well on newer Systems (and on older Systems that >do not have a large number of disks and/or files). In some situations it can fail >with a total or near-total system hang, giving you no choice but to mount disks with >incomplete desktops. To avoid this you can selectively rebuild your desktop(s) by >looking at your disk(s) with File Buddy > >(<http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11688&db=mac> or ><http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1593&db=mac>), > >or a similar program which can view invisible files. Change the names of "Desktop DB" >and "Desktop DF" to something else. (The easiest thing is to add a space in front of >their names.) (You cannot delete them because they are in use.) After you have done >that restart. > >When you restart, the renamed files will not be recognized and the desktop files on >those disks will be rebuilt from scratch. Just delete the renamed copies with the >same application that you used before. When the desktop is rebuilt in this manner >there is no possibility that any database corruption in the original files will be >carried over to the new files. > >In the days of System 6.x and 7.x I did this fairly often (though not once a month). >These days I only do it when things start to go strange (rarely) or when I have been >restoring or replacing disks, or breaking in a new computer with differently >allocated restores. > > >Best wises, >-=-Dennis > >--__--__-- > >Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 03:42:07 -0700 >From: Philip Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Finale] [ot] rebuild desktop mac > >On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 02:13 AM, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: > >> Your best bet is to use StuffIt, or something similar, to pack your >> f2000 application.. > >Or use "Disk Copy" to create a disk image from the Finale Folder. I use the >compressed kind to freeze an application state but it's also possible to create >writable ones and add new files to it until the designated size is used up. Seems to >me that upgrading Stuffit for compression on OS X systems is a waste of money now >that the ".dmg.gz" format is widely supported (and free). > >Philip Aker >http://www.aker.ca -- shirling & neueweise \................/ new music notation specialists mailto:shirling@;newmusicnotation.com :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ++ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
