Dave, I'd wager that had more to do with freeing up lots of additional disk space.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Jul 9, 2015, at 5:36 PM, Dave Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > fwiw the most dramatic speed increase in F2014 for me came after I removed > F2012 from my system. > > I have no idea why, and can't guarantee that you'll have the same experience, > but that's what I found. > > And by dramatic, I mean, dramatic. > > (using MacBook Pro running OSX) > > best of luck, > dave > > > On Jul 9, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> jef, >> >> another option you could consider short of upgrading the entire machine is >> replacing your system drive (and any other drive) with a solid state drive. >> this is probably the single most effective speed upgrade you could make. >> you get ones that are plug-compatible with the internal drives of most >> machines made in the last 5 years or so. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jef, >>> >>> In my experience, Finale is very unstable with MIDI Thru set to off. I set >>> it to a Fixed channel that is not in use (like, channel 99, for example). >>> >>> Probably won't help with performance but might help with stability. >>> >>> Finale also seems to do best with a minimum of 30 GB of free HD space. >>> When my drive starts filling up much more than that, the VM use causes >>> Finale to really crawl. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> - DJA >>> ----- >>> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> is there anything that can be done to make F2014 faster (on yosemite)? >>> i have a >>>> big file that i find too slow, have tested it on a newer machine and of >>> course >>>> it is faster, so some of the problem is of course my HD. but are there >>> any >>>> other things to be done to improve it? i never use playback on these >>> things. >>>> so far i have done these: >>>> >>>> - set human playback to "none" >>>> - set audio/MIDI it to play through MIDI (not audio units) >>>> - MIDI thru is off >>>> - turned off "allow temporary score adjustments" in human playback prefs >>>> - turned off auto layout update >>>> - turned off auto music spacing >>>> - unchecked "playback" in the speedy menu >>>> >>>> rock on >>>> jef >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
