Well, that is one program that had something similar. None of the Apple iLife programs seem to have any format like what MakeMusic is using. Nor does Avid's ProTools. I suppose I could have used Adobe but there is so much crap installed by Adobe CS that I can't find anything remotely like what MakeMusic is doing. Adobe literally floods the Application Support/Adobe Folder with subfolders
Microsoft I think has the better idea, to have the program generate the default files when starting up under a new user rather than to have the files sitting in the global library. It is just causing a lot of confusion and a lot of duplication of files/settings with the end user ending up not knowing exactly what to modify where. On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 4 Oct 2010 at 9:34, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> So.......I could list some more, but I see no other Mac program that >> out right stores pretty much the same stuff in TWO locations. > > You choose as your example a Microsoft program? > > My point is that you basically shouldn't care about the "archive" > copies of the files in the application folder, just as you don't care > about whatever "magic" Microsoft apps use to create their template > files. That's likely hardwired somewhere non-obvious in the > application and the configuration files, and not alterable by the end > user, and you just don't worry about it -- you just let the > application do its job. If that means a new installation of Word has > the wrong font in your Normal.dot document template, that's just the > way it works. > > Likewise, with Finale, you should basically be ignoring the > "reference" files in the application folder. They are for Finale's > use, not yours. The ones that are for *your* use are the ones in the > user folder. > > The difference between MS Office and Finale is that MS is more > obscure about where it's getting its reference files from. There is > no real difference, though, in that somewhere there's a definition of > what the default templates are going to be in a newly-created user > profile. > > Finale just makes it easier to figure out where those are coming > from. > > But that doesn't mean you should care about those files at all. > > -- > 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 NOT Sent from my iSomething _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
