This discussion starting, I think, to not being able to open an older
Finale file. One that says in the Finder it's a Unix Executable
file. I made the suggestion about FileBuddy, and Christopher came in
with the drag and drop concept. While my Finale files, and others,
will open as expected this way, a Unix Ex. file will not. That's what
I was referring to and maybe Christopher saw something different.
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Sounds like your LaunchServices database may be corrupted. Drag-and-
drop onto the app you want to "open with" has been a standard Mac
operation for many, many years (it predates OS X), so you have
either somehow misunderstood the instructions (seems unlikely, just
drag and drop a Finale document onto your Finale application icon)
or there is something corrupt in your OS X installation.
Does drag-and-drop work on other apps? Try dragging a PDF onto Adobe
Reader instead of Preview (or vice versa, if Adobe Reader is your
default PDF viewer).
Cheers,
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 15 Apr 2009, at 5:01 PM, J D Thomas wrote:
Hmm Christopher,
I just tried this since I found your idea interesting. And I could
NOT get it to work, either on the program icon or an alias. I'm on
Leopard 10.5.6. Any further info on this?
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Well, on Mac, you can drop the files on the program's icon, either
in the Dock or anywhere, really, including an alias, and Finale
will attempt to open it. If it opens it successfully, just save it
again. It will open with Finale the next time. The advantage of
dropping the file on an program icon is that it WILL open in the
exact version of Finale you want, instead of always defaulting to
the latest installed version. I keep several versions of Finale in
my Dock for that purpose.
You can do the same with a right click (or control click for one-
button people) and choose Finale or Other... if it doesn't show
Finale as a choice.
Christopher
On 15-Apr-09, at 15-Apr-09 10:15 AM, J D Thomas wrote:
I have this situation come up now and then due to clients'
wishes, where I have to go into a very old file, and it's usually
archived on a drive somewhere. When they show up as a Unix file,
I just use FileBuddy, or an equivalent, to change the Type and
Creator codes to FIN3, which will then open in Finale 2007, which
is the most current version I use. It should work the same for
2009. If MM has changed the T/C codes, just Get Info from with
in FileBuddy to determine what the proper code is.
FB allows you to batch change many files as well, so it's really
quite easy.
I hope this was clear.
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Randolph Peters wrote:
I've got some old Finale files from 1991 that I want to work
with and re-edit in Finale 2009.
The files look like Unix files on my Mac, but Finale 2009 does
open them. I can't even remember what version I was using in
1991, but it would have been the current version at the time.
The problem is that there are way too many errors and bad
conversions when I open them in Finale 2009.
Some people on this list have kept old versions of Finale around
for just this purpose. Before I reinstall some old versions of
Finale to try and gently bring these files into the current
version I thought I would check with the wisdom of this list.
What versions of Finale do I need to start the conversion
process, and which ones can I skip?
Thanks!
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