Those artifacts are hidden notes for the playback effect. If you go to View > Show > and uncheck Hidden Notes and Rests, do they disappear?
Thanks! ___________________________________ 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, 3:40 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
