On May 5, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Lee Actor wrote:
Whenever I start a new piece, I take the finished file for a roughly similar
old piece, delete all the content, adjust the instrumentation, and go from
there. That way, all of my libraries and other behind-the-scenes details
(like staff and group name spacing) are set up the way I like them. Is
there a down side to using this method? It suits me fine, and seems less
fussy than saving multiple libraries and updating default documents, but I
wonder if there are any hidden gotchas. File Info does show that the file
was originally created in an older version of Finale than its current
format, but it doesn't seem likely that data is used for anything. Any
comments or insights?
I used to do what you describe quite a bit, then I noticed that whenever I was having trouble with file weirdness (measures not spacing correctly, some items jumping around in placement, playback is off, measures not showing up, lyrics... oy!) that it was with one of these old files. Starting with a file created in the current version greatly cut down the amount of wacky behaviour I saw.
I attribute this to imperfect importation from old versions of Finale. Things seem to have improved greatly in post-2002 files, but every once in a while I have to copy the contents of an old file over to a 2005 blank in order to dispell the gremlins, and then adjust libraries and various settings and all the other stuff that doesn't get copied.
Christopher
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