GOOD LUCK to Finale Developers on FIXING THIS!!! At MakeMusic Forum and saw this: ------------------------------- IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL FINALE 2006 FOR MACINTOSH!
Due to a problem in the Finale installer, IMPORTANT USER FILES MAY BE DELETED FROM YOUR MACINTOSH COMPUTER DURING FINALE INSTALLATION unless the following precaution is taken. BEFORE INSTALLING FINALE, navigate to the [current user]/Library/Application Support folder and delete the folder named MakeMusic. [Note that the MakeMusic folder appears here ONLY if you¹ve previously installed Finale.] The above step ensures your User/Library/Application Support folder is not deleted during installation. This folder contains user preference files for some applications. Please note this problem does not occur with any Finale for Windows installations. We will be sending you updated installation discs, at our expense, that do not require this additional step. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you and let us know if you have any questions. Carla Hennes Customer Support Team Leader MakeMusic! ------------------------------- I've re-read this SEVERAL TIMES, and this > BEFORE INSTALLING FINALE, navigate to the [current user]/Library/Application > Support folder and delete the folder named MakeMusic. > > [Note that the MakeMusic folder appears here ONLY if you¹ve previously > installed Finale.] > > The above step ensures your User/Library/Application Support folder is not Doesn't make sense!!! Do they mean to Remove/Hide > the folder named MakeMusic Or the Application Support Folder Entirely, and then putting it back, and copying the newly installed > the folder named MakeMusic Back into the old Application Support Folder? Even that statement from Finale And folks on [email protected] LIST are confirming this bug too!!! LUCKY FOR ME, I haven't even had a chance to order this Upgrade, but, I am REALLY EMBARRASSED to hear about this!!! It's probably a HAPPY DAY for Sibelius folks, who are probably DANCING AND LAUGHING at such GROSS INCOMPETECE on Finale's part!!! But, jokes aside, NASA spent hundreds of millions of $$ on the Space Shuttle, and that piece of FOAM still pilled off!!! Luckily, NOBODY is going to DIE from this INSTALL, which will EVENTUALLY be corrected, and, let's hope they shall fix the Shuttle stuff... Either way, GOOD LUCK to Finale Developers on FIXING THIS!!! > I just got off the line with tech support at MakeMusic and they > confirmed that there is indeed a problem with the installer erasing > the ~/Library/Application Support folder. They just became aware of > it 1 hour ago (it is now noon, July 28) and will stop shipments of > Finale 2006 until they can solve this. It seems to be a Tiger only > problem, but I'm not 100% sure. > > -Randolph Peters Arkady web site: http://www.arkady.com Powerbook 17 (9/2003), 1.33 MHz, 1.5G RAM, 5400 RPM HD, Mac OS 10.4.2, Finale 2005b _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
