On 6 May 2005 at 8:41, Christopher Smith wrote: > 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.
If copying actually worked decently, that wouldn't be much of an issue, but Finale's copying mechanisms are ridiculously buggy. It's wonderful that they spent so much time implementing selective copying, which makes all sorts of great things possible, but they seem to have neglected making comprehensive copying work. When you have to use a plug-in to fix clef changes (or do it manually, which then encounters the clef change bug, where you end up not being able to apply a mid-measure clef change to certain measures), and when there is no way at all to ever copy cautionary accidentals (why does Finale treat my cautionary accidentals so cavalierly? I made the change, why does it take every opportunity to undo my manual change?), it really becomes unacceptable. I am pulling my hair out over the cautionary accidental thing, as I've dutifully reproduced the accidentals in my original sources, as preparation for studying what it tells us about their concepts of tonality (where they considered them necessary, where unneeded), but now I have to compare bar by bar from my source individual movement file to my new combined file, and then I'm going to have to do a complete re-proofreading from the original source. While it's always good to go back and do that, it's annoying at this late stage for me to have to do it *yet again*, after having already done it several times, and this time just because FINALE HAS LOST MY DATA. -- 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
