Despite the almost constant appearance of the dreaded Mac beach ball, my first project in Finale 2014 has been no day at the beach . . .
The issue is extremely - agonizingly - unacceptably - sluggish behavior when doing ANYTHING. Changing tools, scrolling pages, anything. I'm on an 8-core 2.26 GHz Mac Pro with 18GB of RAM, and it's always been plenty fast on even the largest scores up till now (in Finale 2012). Disclaimer(s): this project involved expanding a score originally done years ago in a much earlier version of Finale (not even sure which one at the moment) from a 6-piece combo to a 17-piece big band with vocal. So I know I'm possibly asking for trouble by not copying and pasting the previous information (or re-entering it from scratch) into a new native 2014 document. I know there can be lots of left-over "garbage" that can slow things down. That being said, in every version up till this one, when I've had to do exactly what I described above, I've still been able to work efficiently with only the most minimal occasional slowdown or glitch, even in an orchestral score that started life years earlier in another version. So I'm wondering if some combination of old file format, custom fonts (Bill Duncan chord symbol), "older" OS and machine, and who knows what else might be causing this. I called tech support and his best guess was that it was file specific, and I'm certainly hoping that's the case. I'll just have to finish this and then start the next large score from scratch in 2014 and see if the same thing develops as the score grows. Meanwhile, has anyone found that OS X10.7.5 (Lion) is just not up to the task of handling Finale 2014, as opposed to Mountain Lion or Mavericks? Thanks for any insight. I'm not ready to upgrade to Mavericks on the Mac Pro yet, although Mountain Lion would be easy enough if that would help. Doug P.S. I'm not (knowingly) experiencing any loss of data or crashes or anything of the sort - just a sluggishness that will have me running back to 2012 to do any real work from now on if this can't be solved. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
