Carl Dershem wrote:
If I could remember how to do that (not something I normally deal with), I could answer you. But I've never had to do that before, and cannot remember what libraries to import to get my expressions back.
Well, what you would do is open the old document, select "save libraries" from the file menu, and select expressions. You are then prompted for a name for the expression library you are saving. (And as I recall, shape and text expressions reside in different libraries). It is my understanding that the problems with this approach may lie a bit later, in loading the library you saved to correct the corrputed one.
I recall that most versions of Finale do not, or when I was investigating this more fully, did not used to overwrite an existing library, but fortunately did not check for duplicate library elements, either. So, in theory, my experience suggests that if you do as Karen suggests, that is, save a "good copy" of the library from an older version of the document, and load it into the corrupted document, using the "load libraries" command in the file menu, the result will be all of the expression items originally contained in the document, followed by all of the good ones you just loaded. My impression is, that if you then go to each of the corrupted items, and delete it from the expression definiton dialog box, when it deletes the expression, it asks if you want to redirect to a new expression, and permits you to select the new expression.
This might be worth a try.
ns
Yeah, it's kinda dopey, but you generally only get good at what you do on a regular basis. First time I've had this problem in MANY years.
cd
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