I am a MAC user and I have to manage well over 60,000 Mac only finale files for a publisher that are mostly choral/vocal files. It has been a difficult. I have to keep an old machine around (and some backup "old" machines) to run OS9 so I can open files from version 3.5.2 up to 2003 which I do on a daily basis.
If you are dealing with vocal music my best advise is to map out a long term plan to upgrade your files. Moving directly into 2006 from 3.5.2 or 2.0 files has been working well for me. With the help of QuicKeys and FinaleScript a lot of the issue of upgrading can be automated. You will still have to proof these files because everything is thrown everywhere but not as bad as other upgrades. At the same time...if you are dealing with lyrics and Postscript fonts you should make the change to Open Type fonts. Finale 2006 and 2007 do not handle special characters like option-spaces unless you are using Open Type fonts. They really dropped the ball on postscript support after OS9. If you are dealing with Instrumental files I would say you do not have to do the intensive proofing required by vocal music so it should be much easier. ...but you will never know when MM will decide that the program's internal meaning of what 1 EVPU means is going to change, which they did because of this list's complaints of default line thicknesses many years ago. Stupid decisions like that can throw everything off. This unfortunately is the reality of the poor policies of Coda and MakeMusic when it comes to supporting old files. They need to make a standard and stick with it but unfortunately it is too late...most of the damage is done. Steve On 10/11/06 11:38 AM, "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fiskum, Steve écrit: >> This is the biggest problem Finale has had for years. Upgrading files is WAY >> back on their priority list. I have been battling this problem since 2.0. >> The issues you bring up are big but over the years it has been much worse. I >> have told every client I work with that if you are planning on upgrading >> your files, make sure you allot enough time and money for re-proofing and >> editing of these files. It is not as easy as just opening up the file and >> hitting print and save. > > It simply isn't possible to proof hundreds and hundreds of files each time > you upgrade. So what this means is that you have to keep all old versions > of Finale and use for each file the version in was created in. This is > possible, albeit very tedious, for Windows users. But what are Mac users > supposed to do, who can't run old versions on new machines? > > This is bad... > > Dennis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
