And Glen, When you know you have a preference file that is a good one, make a few copies of it (command - D on a Mac). They'll be labeled copy 1,2 etc. and then, if your preference file becomes corrupted, you can replace it with a good copy without needing to rebuild one from scratch.
Margot and I send our find regards. Chuck Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Christopher Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: > > My first idea (well, my second really! My FIRST was reboot) was that there > may be some other part of the system attached to the colon key, say, a macro > program or even OS X itself. To test this, create a new user account and try > your operation. It may help you track it down. If the behaviour is not there, > then you know it is in your user account. > > Also, of course you should try trashing preferences. This is a complex > procedure now, so make sure you are trashing the right file by looking up the > instructions properly for your OS. In my experience you don’t have to > actually put the prefs file in the trash; just drag it to the desktop or > rename it, so that if the recreate prefs operation doesn’t solve the problem > you can easily restore the old prefs file. > > Christopher > > >> On Feb 20, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Glen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I just created a new document in Fin 2014.5 and tried to create Metatool >> for the Staff Tool. The results were the same: failure. >> >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> >> Glen >> >> >>> On Feb 20, 2016, at 5:37 AM, SN jef chippewa >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> sounds odd... reboot? :-) >>> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
