On 30 Sep 2006 at 7:26, Christopher Smith wrote: > Upon installation (at least in the Mac version) you are asked if you > want to periodically check for updates. If you answered yes, and your > computer is connected to the Internet constantly as many are these > days, then you will be informed when there is an available update > when you start up Finale. > > If for some reason you weren't asked, or you don't remember > answering, go into the Help menu of Finale and select "Check for > Finale updates..." After the computer checks for you, it will show > you a Settings button. Click this button to check or change whether > Finale automatically looks for updates, and how often.
If you're running a properly firewalled system, you'd likely not want Finale to connect to the Internet as you only want to authorize programs that properly use the Internet as part of their daily operations to access it. I would *never* authorize Finale to check for updates. I'd just check manually. > BTW, about .BAK files: I have a second hard drive, and on it I made a > folder called Finale .BAK files. I specified THIS folder for my > backups in Preferences, so that when (notice I said "when" and not > "if") my hard drive dies, I will have preserved the latest backup > regardless. Non one has mentioned AutoSave files, which are named *.ASV. Those are the ones that are created when you set Finale to save your work on a recurring schedule. The *.BAK files are created each time you do a manual FILE | SAVE. And let me repeat what I've said a gazillion times: With an "undelete" program that protects deleted files from being overwritten, you can have access to all the previous versions of your files without needing to rename them. Curiously enough, my understanding is that the next version of OS X as well as Windows Vista will offer a similar feature in their default configurations (though it's not going to be implemented exactly the same way -- it's going to allow file versioning in cases that wouldn't work with a simple undelete program). But until then, an undelete program gives you access to all incremental versions of your files (until the disk space allocated for it is used up). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
