On Oct 7, 2006, at 3:20 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
am about to introduce myself to finale 2007 (hi, i'm jef... please
behave and we can be friends) and wondering if there are any issues
to be aware of in simply dropping my old default file (template),
instrument and page sizes docs and preferences from 2005 into the
appropriate places in the 2007 folder. perhaps someone could
point me to a date (approx) where this was discussed instead of it
being hashed out all over again, and i can look it up in my digests
(currently catching up on mid-august digests...)?
i realise there are things i will have to update, but i need to
know if this approach is better, or if i should transfer settings
with a PI, export 2005 libraries and import into 2007... etc.
The subject comes up from time to time, and I seem to be the only one
who DOESN'T reuse old templates and default files because of issues
with old files.
I find that file corruption is more likely to occur when using
templates from older versions (though I never had any issues with
importing older libraries, so you might be OK there!) so I manually
alter settings in the new default file. I find that MakeMusic is
supplying better and better default settings, including metatool
assignments, new SmartShapes, libraries of all sorts, music spacing
settings, tie settings, etc., and I get to take advantage of them by
using the new default files.
However, not everyone agrees with me, in fact the vast majority
report no problems at all with older files (say, post 2002 or so) and
many prefer the settings that they have lovingly tweaked themselves
and metatools that they alone remember the keystrokes for, and
somehow I think you might be one of those.
However, on another subject, I have given up using 2007 for now and
have regressed to 2006 because of various and sundry bugs, including,
but not limited to, wandering augmentation dots, measures that
suddenly disappear, inconsistencies of usage with the new linked
parts, and a few previously-eradicated bugs that seem to have come
back. Maybe these things will be addressed in the first update, and I
will come enthusiastically back to the fold. I quite like 2006 for a
number of reasons, including better performance on my older (mac)
computer.
Christopher
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