On 4 Oct 2010 at 20:11, Daniel Wolf wrote: > I have to protest about this. I, like plenty of other computers users, > am the only person allowed (or likely or willing) to go anywhere near > the computer in my office/studio/composing garrett. While I can > appreciate that there are office settings in which a computer will have > multiple users, raising multiple user security issues, having a > multiple user set up as the only default can be an awful waste of time > and brain cells, neither of which your typical > composer/arranger/copyist can much afford to lose, given (as Slonimsky > put it) irreversibly obsolescence and recessive infantiloquy and all > the other things a musician has to do to earn a living.
You shouldn't need to "waste any brain cells" on this. That's the whole point -- leave the OS and your software alone. It's supposed to take care of all this without you having to worry about it. One of the problems for Windows users in transitioning to Vista/Windows 7 is that they've been used to running as administrator (wrongly so -- they should never have been doing that because of the safety issues), and having full access to everywhere on their hard drive. This is despite the fact that the default Windows permissions have been set up such that non-admins had full read/write access only to the data in their personal profile (like any multi-user OS) since the release of Windows 2000, in 1999. The fact is, your OS is designed around the idea that there are certain files on your computer that are none of your business, and that's what this is about more than multi-user issues. The OS and application files (and the data libraries that support those apps) are none of your business, and you should basically not be concerning yourself with them. Your data is your data, though, and the OS and your apps segregate that for you in locations over which you have full control. The problem is that many people have become accustomed to caring about the application and OS files, when they shouldn't have worried themselves over them at all. Now, that is not to say that some applications may not be badly designed and do a haphazard job of getting the files into the right places to fit this architecture. I'm not certain whether Finale is doing everything right or not, but the point is simply that the files you should worry about are the ones in your user profile. Everything else you should leave up to your OS and your application. -- 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
