David W. Fenton wrote:
Keep in mind that when you open a Finale file in any version of Finale, you're not actually editing the original file, but a copy in memory. When you open a file from an earlier version, the memory copy is translated from the old to the new format, without a name.The existence in "Options > Program options > other options" of a checkbox, "open older documents as untitled", which seems to be checked by default, but which, since this behavior has never been a problem for me, I have never explored, caused me to suspect that your assertion as written above, may not be true.
I would have better served, instead of writing "six years" to write a "short period of time".
I don't think you really understand modern software architecture.
You're right. I probably don't. In fact, I know just enough to make myself appear foolish in messages such as the preceding ones in my thread. I also don't know how much time it takes how many programmers to design an application like Finale from the ground up, but I do suspect that the time involved in "person years" is significant, and that therefore, if we are to continue to have Finale available at the modest prices we pay (and I know some may not feel that the greater part of $100.00 we pay for the upgrade each year qualifies as "modest", but I do) each year, some of the initial decisions that were made when FIN 1.0 and 128, or 256 K were the total amount of memory, and hard drives were measured in MB instead of GB are going to continue to plague us.
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