Will Denayer wrote:
Hello All,
I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of
days ago.
Congratulations, Dr. Denayer. I think you will find you have acquired
top-flight notation software.
I find myself respectfully disagreeing with Chuck: you can specify which
view you want as the default for a new document on Edit > Program
Options > New; back-up options are selected in Edit > Program Options >
Save; and the default location to save files are specified in Edit >
Program Options > folders.
May I suggest that you take the time to read and work through the
greater part of the tutorials, both those in the installation manual
that accompanied the package (IIRC, new users are provided with a
printed copy, but if not it's the lowest button in the Learning Center
in the start up splash screen). While there are some bits that you may
be able to profitably skip, these are a fairly good introduction to how
Finale works. Also, you might want to review the section in the Users
Guide, and review the video tutorials. Thought there are some things
that you might want to defer until later, (for example, I never work
with popular music, and have not set any music with chords, so that is
an area in which my Finale knowledge is inferior to my knowledge of
other areas; but I do intend at some point to go back and review this
material.
If I may amplify a bit about ~.BAK files, when you attempt to save a
file, if you have the program configured to do so, upon saving, Finale
will rename your original file by changing the file extension. For
example, suppose you choose to save the third exercise with the name,
"exercise3.mus". When you save the file, the second time, Finale will
rename the first save from "exercise3.mus" to "exercise3.bak", and then
save the latest version as "exercise3.mus" (This is only good for one
level; the third time you attempt to save to the same filename, the
existing "exercise3.bak" is overwritten; for this reason I prefer to
create my own incremental backups, so that if I decide that I was an
idiot three saves ago, and I am now on a musical dead end, I can easily
recover the file I was working on at that time.)
I would also recommend periodically checking in at the MakeMusic!
website; two or three times a year, there are maintenance upgrades and
patches released which you can download and apply. The crashing problem
you mention may be addressed by one of these. Availability of these
upgrades is usually, but not always, mentioned by someone in this forum.
Happy Notesetting
ns
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