Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 06 Aug 2005, at 7:06 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Well, it has happened again, and maybe this has to do with conversion from older documents. Now neither the chord tool, nor the tuplet tool will work. (This is in an up-converted file.) And opening a new 2006 default document exhibits

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Karen
Hi Chuck, Try opening the older files from within Finale 2006 rather than double clicking them to open...also, I would create a backup of your Finale preferences once you have them the way you want them. Then when this happens, you can at least save yourself the trouble of re- creating

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Karen, I'll try this too. Something will have to work! If I save the preferences to a backed up place and then reinstall them, will the backed up preferences be corrupted so that I must rebuild them anyway? I'm not sure I understand where the corruption lives, if it is possible to

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 6, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Karen wrote:Hi Chuck,Try opening the older files from within Finale 2006 rather than double clicking them to open..This makes no difference, so I'm on the reinstall track now.Thanks for the idea anyway.  It was worth trying.Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 06 Aug 2005, at 7:30 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Karen, I'll try this too. Something will have to work! If I save the preferences to a backed up place and then reinstall them, will the backed up preferences be corrupted so that I must rebuild them anyway? Chuck, The thing to do is

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Karen, Thanks, I got this now, and understand it clearly, but a reinstall did nothing, so now I'm going to try to delete the new default preferences, quit and re-start Finale to see if that does anything positive. Back in a minute or so. Chuck On Aug 6, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Karen

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi David, I'll take any suggestion I can get, but this doesn't seem to be the problem. For instance - select the tool from the pallet with the mouse, click on entry - nothing with those two tools. Other similar tools work as expected. It's mysterious. Thanks though. Chuck On Aug 6,

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Did you try selecting the tool from the Tools menu? Did you try double-clicking on the Tuplet tool to see if it brings up Document Options - Tuplets? Did you try selecting existing tuplets or chords with the selection tool? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 06 Aug 2005,

Re: [Finale] tools malfunctioning again

2005-08-06 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 6, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Did you try selecting the tool from the Tools menu? Yes, I have macros that do this, (grace a Karen) and they are working correctly. Did you try double-clicking on the Tuplet tool to see if it brings up Document Options - Tuplets?