On Jun 17, 2008, at 10:36 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
My FinMac2008 crashes very often at its start up on both G5 and
MBP2.4,
and it is caused by corrupted pref file. I now have a zipped Fin pref
file. Every time the crash happens, I have to trash the pref and
unzip
the backup pref file. It is my routine now.
Is is just me, or have we all become way too complacent to the point
where we just accept these "features" from Make Music? I don't use
Finale 2008 because it's too buggy and unstable, corruption-laden, and
too many long-standing shortcomings have gone unfixed and
unacknowledged. For the most part, Finale 2007 works on my system,
but it does the unexpectedly quit dance every time I quit the
application. And I can't get MM to even answer an email about it.
This to me is completely unacceptable from a "professional" piece of
software and the company that brings it to market.
By the way, a while ago I tried to help a few people who are having
FinMac crash on startup at HAL level on MIDI driver. Later I learned
this is caused by using Migration assistant. If you used it to copy
over AMS file from your old system, Finale doesn't like it.
Now this is interesting. I recently upgraded from a G5Quad to a new
MacPro, and did the migration assistant routine. Over the ensuing 4
weeks my main user account got so FUBAR that my whole work routine
came to a screeching halt. Even creating a new user account was only
marginally successful. 6 hours on the phone with Apple's tech support
(boy those guys ARE REALLY patient!!) typing UNIX commands in Terminal
couldn't solve the issues. I finally got fed up, backed up the main
drive, reformatted, zeroed out, and started over. No problems since.
This is the 4th time I've use MA when moving to a new OS X version,
from OS 9 to Jaguar, Jaguar to Panther, Panther to Tiger, and Tiger
to Leopard. And each time I used MA to hopefully save time. And each
time I had massive user account issues. I will NEVER use MA again,
no matter what anyone says.
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
West Linn OR
www.thomastudios.com
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