On 1 Oct 2006 at 18:57, Javier Ruiz wrote:

> > If you have both turned on, you'll get:
> > 
> >   MyMusic.mus
> >   MyMusic.asv
> >   MyMusic.bak
> > 
> > These may or may not be in the same folder as your MUS file (you can
> > have a separate folder for both ASV and for BAK files, configurable
> > in Program Options under FOLDERS, at least, it used to be there).
> > 
> > The backup files are for recovery when something goes wrong.
> > Otherwise, you can ignore them.
> 
> In a poor Mac you get:

I was responding to a Windows user.

> MyMusic.mus
> MyMusic asv.mus
> Mymusic copy.mus
> 
> If everything is saved in the same folder.

That's not the same file name.

> And since the extension is always MUS all files work with Finale
> directly.
>
> [And David, Mac OS X rocks, even the Linux guys agree with that.]

I've never said that it didn't.

The fact is, Finale behaves differently in this regard on Mac and 
Windows. Finale could do exactly the same thing on Windows and there 
wouldn't be any file association problems. MacFin could do it the 
Windows way and it would still work (because there's metadata not 
just a file extension). 

I have a hard time understanding why the Mac way you describe is not 
used in Windows, to be honest!

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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