The single best thing you can do for your MacPro is move the system to a SSD. Or do a Fusion drive on it. My 2008 MacPro takes about 20 seconds to boot.
Second thing you can do is install 10.8 or 10.9. It requires a little bit of work, but it is totally possible. You need to install Chameleon or something similar. There are various threads on the net on how to do this. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325709 But the single biggest increase you can get is a SSD in it. NIGHT AND DAY performance. NOT Sent from an iCar -- Eric Dannewitz Musician/Polymath/Evil Genius http://www.ericdannewitz.com On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre <yorkmaster...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I may have found a reason for the problem: > > In 2006 I bought the then best Mac Pro desktop, which is still my main > workhorse for all serious work also in Finale. It is fast enough for smooth > playback, redraws sufficiently fast, and with its two video cards it allows > me to run four monitors: one for musical source files, one for tool palettes > (especially the score manager), and two for different views of the score > worked on. > > But this Mac Pro cannot run any system newer than OS X 10.7.5. And it has a > quite slow start up, so I only use it for when I plan on longer work sessions. > > Much of my musical proofreading happens in my head while I do other things. > When I get in doubt about what I wrote then I open the files for a look on my > newer Mac Book Pro (runs the newest system) to which I do back-ups via my > LAN. > > I tried opening a large and complex (for me) FM2012 file in FM2014 on the Mac > Book, and that worked all fine. I opened that converted file on my older > desktop. > > When I opened via LAN from the laptop disk it looked all fine, except that > the File Manager looked like the Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds had not > been set. Playback however was all fine with the right sounds. > > I then transferred the converted file back to the disk of the desktop Mac and > opened it from there. Same result, but for one oddity: > > The timpani line had blocks of grey artifacts at the bottom of the stave and > just below. That part has a lot of rolls notated with the 3 fat strokes > tremolo articulation. I could see that the grey blots actually are the very > small single note values of the rolls being tightly compressed. I tried > printing the file to .pdf and the artifacts do not print to .pdf. Still they > look ugly in the Finale window. > > You likely haven't tested every Finale aspect with older systems, but as > 10.7.5 has the main features to run FM2014, it would be nice if the problems > with the non-opening FM2012 files and with the said artifacts would be > correct in an update. > > Klaus > > > > On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:16 PM, "Phillips, Justin" > <jphill...@makemusic.com> wrote: > > After a reboot, does the same problem occur? >> ___________________________________ >> Justin Phillips >> Senior Product Manager >> >> M 952 € 388 € 3064 D 952 € 818 € 3819 >> F 952 € 818 € 3919 www.makemusic.com <http://www.makemusic.com/> >> >> <http://www.makemusic.com/> >> >> >> >> >> On 11/5/13, 3:08 AM, "Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre" <yorkmaster...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I have been able to open one not too complex FM2012 document in FM2014. >>> >>> However I mostly get messages like these: >>> >>> While attempting to access ³KB Koral basis 2012.mus² the File Manager >>> reported an error. >>> >>> >>> While attempting to access ³EnigmaTemp-1449746605² the File Manager >>> reported an error. >>> >>> Anything I can do? >>> >>> Klaus >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
