On 20 Mar 2010 at 19:08, Ray Horton wrote: > Your post brings up another point. You have removed old versions of > Finale and lived to tell the tale.
I have always upgraded my files to the last version I was using and have never kept old ones installed. Were I a publisher or had so many files that needed to be kept in their original format (i.e., too much trouble to fix the formatting issues in them most recent version), I would probably keep old version, but I have never done that. Keep in mind also that I'm a conservative upgrader, and have only ever used these versions: Finale 2.01 Finale 3.52 Finale 97 Finale 2003 The last is what I'm still using. Yes, I recognize that I would get great benefits from upgrading to Finale 2010, but I would also not get full benefit with my present hardware. I'm due for a new computer or two and will likely upgrade when I get a new computer. > The last time I tried that was maybe > 8 or 10 years ago, perhaps more. The "uninstall" command for the old > version wiped out significant portions of the new version Needless to > say, i had to reinstall the newer version. I've never had multiple versions installed. I've gone through 6 computers since I started using Finale, and have not upgraded Finale on all of them. In 1991, I installed Finale 2.01 on my laptop (but not on my desktop, which was incapable of running Windows in any useful form). In 1993 or 94, with a new laptop, I re-installed 2.01. I didn't upgrade that machine either, so far as I recall, though I may very well have installed 3.52 on it. I got my next computer, a desktop, in 1996, and that one started out with 3.52 and did get upgraded to Finale 97 later on. My next computer I acquired c. 2001, and it started out with 97, and I upgraded it to 2003 in 2003. In all cases of upgrades, I replaced the old version and upgraded my files at the point I needed to use them (I didn't systematically go through and upgrade the files -- only if I was working on them anyway). But really, I didn't have all that many files to upgrade from 3.52 to 97 (probably not more than 3 dozen significant files), and it is only in the last 10 years or so that I've accumulated a significant number of files, most not very complicated. My really complex files are my piano quartets/quintets, and I've not created very many new ones of those in the last 5 years or so. Most of my work in the last 5 years has been in creating editions for the NYU Collegium and for my viol consort. Those are much smaller and simpler files than the piano quartet/quintet files. > I have not run a Finale > "uninstall" since, preferring to replace Finale versions with the > occasional hard disk format or computer replacement. i have several > versions of Finale on my system now - which can be helpful in sharing > files with others but annoying otherwise. So, is Finale's "unistall" > safe, now? Or is Windows "remove programs?" I don't recall whether I uninstalled Finale or just installed over top of it. Likely it was the latter as I can't stand programs that put too much information in their installation directory names. That is, I would never install Finale 2003 in anything other than a folder called Finale. Likewise, Finale 2010 will be installed in a folder called Finale. The only exception I make to that is when I'm purposely maintaining multiple versions, but with Finale, I've never done that, so never uninstalled. I've never encountered any issues in that regard, but I'm also dealing with versions of Finale that predate Garritan. No doubt that has increased the complexity of the Finale installation setup, so uninstalling might be advisable. I really don't know. -- 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
