Hi Karen,
Thanks, I got this now, and understand it clearly, but a reinstall
did nothing, so now I'm going to try to delete the new default
preferences, quit and re-start Finale to see if that does anything
positive.
Back in a minute or so.
Chuck
On Aug 6, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Karen wrote:
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Karen, I'll try this too.
Something will have to work!
If I save the preferences to a backed up place and then reinstall
them, will the backed up preferences be corrupted so that I must
rebuild them anyway?
Hi Chuck,
Not if you back up a non-corrupted version of your preferences and
delete the old corrupted preferences when you have to replace them
with a backup version. Again, make sure that you have quit out of
Finale before you do this.
I'm not sure I understand where the "corruption" lives, if it is
possible to "save" the preferences that seem to be causing the
problem.
If you quit Finale, then trash the preferences as you mentioned you
did before which fixed the problem. Then restart Finale and create
a new "clean" document in 2006 for the purpose of resetting your
preferences the way you want them to be set. Once you have them
set them the way you like them, go to File>Save Special>Save
Preferences to make sure that prefs are in fact saved. Verify that
all of the tools are still working properly and quit Finale. Then
go into your preferences folder and option-drag your Finale
preferences to where you want to save the backed up copy. This
will make a copy of your "clean, uncorrupted" preferences. Whenever
you need to "restore" your preferences after you have gotten a
corruption or after a re-install of Finale, you can just option-
drag your "clean" preferences back into the preferences folder.
(as you probably already know, option dragging copies whatever file
you have highlighted to the new location rather than simply moving
it there as plain dragging does.)
I have a clean version of my Finale preferences backed up...if for
some reason, my prefs get corrupted which they don't often but have
before...I can just replace them with the backup.
Hope I understood your question correctly...:-) And I know this
doesn't solve the problem with what is causing the corruption in
the first place..I'm afraid I'm baffled by that one...I think Darcy
has the right answer on that...a re-install may be in order. But
hopefully this will save you some time with preferences rebuilding.
Best,
Karen
First thing I'm going to try is the opening from within 2006 to
see if that works any differently.
I'll report soon.
thanks,
Chuck
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Karen wrote:
Hi Chuck,
Try opening the older files from within Finale 2006 rather than
double clicking them to open...also, I would create a backup of
your Finale preferences once you have them the way you want
them. Then when this happens, you can at least save yourself the
trouble of re-creating them each time. Make sure to quit Finale
before dragging the backed up preferences into your
library>preferences folder.
Just another thought...
-Karen
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Well, it has happened again, and maybe this has to do with
conversion from older documents. Now neither the chord tool,
nor the tuplet tool will work. (This is in an up-converted
file.) And opening a new 2006 default document exhibits the
same behavior. So, I can again delete and rebuild the
preferences, but how can I prevent this from happening every
time I go to work on an old file?
Frustrating!
Chuck
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