On Apr 5, 2005 9:03 AM, d. collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darcy James Argue �crit: > > >1) Will "batch process folder" also affect subfolders? > > I don't think so, but I've never tried with subfolders.
No, it doesn't process subfolders. >> 2) What happens to older Finale files? Will they be >> skipped/automatically converted to Fin2005 / cause the script >> to hang / something else? > > This script will open the files, make the changes, but won't save the > files. You can add > save all > close all > if you want to save and close all the files. Actually you should probably just add save close so it will save then close each file as you go along instead of opening a bunch of windows at once. In fact, if you want to preserve the current files, you can add save append "_new" instead, and it will add "_new" to the ends of the filenames (but before the ".mus" extension, if you have it) as it saves them so the old files will remain as they are. In fact, if you run the built-in "Convert folder of files to current Finale format" script it will append "_2k5" to the filenames as it saves them. > If you have older files, you should probably batch convert them > before you run your font script (there's a ready-made script for > that, at least in 2004). All that script does is batch process folder save and append "_2k5" unless you "un-comment" some of the lines, so adding a "save" command to another script will do exactly the same thing (unless you like to modify in increments). By the way, Dennis, thanks for the "" tip for converting all instances of a font (instead of specific text). I never did figure that out myself, and it would have helped me big-time a couple of months ago. > Make sure you have backups of all your files before you start running any > scripts. A very good idea, but as Darcy is one of the people "File Overwrite" has bitten most I'd assume he's already got backups of his backed-up backups anyway. :) -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
