On 2 Mar 2005 at 15:00, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > 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 see no reason why that would control anything other than whether the copy in memory is unnamed or retains the name. Again, that's not at a level that is entwined within the actual process of conversion. It's entirely external to the actual conversion process. > 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. They've bitten the bullet over the years and re-engineered many problematic components of Finale. They just can't do it all at once. Also, they have to choose things that make Finale more marketable, and I'm afraid people who need multiple versions of Finale (under the current setup) are vastly outnumbered by those who get by just fine with only one (i.e., who don't have to exchange data with people using different versions). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
