In regard to our recent discussion of the old "delete your preferences file" troubleshooting trick for Finale users on Mac, I was just reading Ars Technica's fascinating review of Snow Leopard and came across this:
Images are PNGs or JPEGs, audio is AAC, video is MPEG-4, even preference files and other property lists now default to a compact binary format rather than XML. - http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/3 I wonder if this is a good or bad thing? I'm partial to plain-text files for storing this kind of thing (as with INI files on Windows), and worry that Apple is buying itself the same kind of problem here that Microsoft had with early implementations of the System Registry (which predated Win95, BTW -- it was there in Win3.x if you had a version of MS Office installed). Anyway, the whole review starts here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars ...and so far as I can tell is TWENTY-THREE PAGES in length! That's my Friday evening fun! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
