I'm catching up reading the list today and didn't see an immediate answer to Bob's post. If you haven't already done this, try starting up Finale and then opening the file in question from Finale's file menu.
I had to do this recently to open some older files. I got a different message than you're talking about (basically said the application couldn't be found) when I tried to open from the desktop, but opening from the file menu seems to help in a number of situations. I'm on a Mac so the message could also be different in Windows. I'm not sure exactly what versions they were but all the files which prompted the Mac message had the older Finale icon (faceles man holding scroll). I'm running finmac 2k2. Hope this is of some help. Don Hart on 2/27/04 4:06 PM, Brad Beyenhof at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Bob Florence wrote: > >> I'm trying to open an old file. it is a full score. I keep getting >> this message. >> "While attempting to open a file file manager reported an error" >> Finale-error occurred ID=-8 >> This file was done in June of 1997 on a Mac G3. I have all of the >> parts, >> but this score won't open. > > And to chime in: I created a file in FinMac2003a, and a friend had > this same error occur when attempting to open it in Finale *Guitar* > 2003 (also for Mac). > > Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
