On 1/13/2014 8:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > Have you tried trashing the Finale preferences? The procedure changes > according to the OS, so you had better find out where the correct > prefs file is stored. I do not, however, suggest trashing it and then > emptying the trash the way they suggest, as this may not solve the > problem and then you have a raw prefs file to reconstruct. I prefer > to drag it to the desktop, restart Finale, and see if that solves it. > If so, then trash the file. If it didn't solve anything, then you can > replace the new prefs with your old file. >
Is this a common problem with Mac programs or is it just poor programming on the part of Finale developers? I don't recall any of the Mac users on the Sibelius group ever running into this problem. I'm a Windows person and am not asking in an attempt to start a platform war, but my daughter has a Mac, having given up on Windows and my wife is considering doing the same and I have a genuine concern over whether such "under the hood" repair work, common in Windows, is becoming more common in OSX. My daughter is very happy with her MacBookPro only having problems getting NetFlix to work properly all the time but it's not enough of a problem to get her to change back to Windows. But she doesn't do overly complicated things -- surfs the web, spends time on FaceBook and other social networking sites and does basic wordprocessing functions. My wife, on the other hand, does more intricate things, among them is using Finale on a regular basis and using WordPerfect's page layout functions (she's constantly frustrated trying to do the same things in Word), and I just want to know in advance what we may be getting into (computer maintenance and tech-support) if she makes the switch. Thank you for any calm non-flaming insights that anybody can offer. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
