I was wondering whether anyone else had encountered a problem wherein
Finale 2009 won't start up at all. It gets to the Initializing MIDI
stage and then crashes. The Crash Log says
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0xbf70
I've
The only time I've had a kernel error is when I had a bad RAM chip
(twice).
Try the almost-free utility Memtest at
http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php
It costs US $1.39 through PayPal, which is next to free, and it
spotted my bad RAM chip that was overlooked by the system utility,
This is what happened to me with 2008. Never got it to work. Mem
test didn't find anything, After exhausting everyones good advice, to
no avail, I tried completely reformating the disk and reinstalling all
programs from scratch. Still didn't work. I could run it with out
the MOTU
You may try pulling all your non Finale audio plugins. There are
several audio plugins that will cause Finale to crash.
John Hinchey
Hinchey Music Services Inc.
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On
Thanks for this bad news Dick and others.
I am not using MOTU hardware or software (learnt that lesson years ago!) but
am using an eMagic MT4 interface as well as a direct connection to an edirol
SD-20.
I will try the Memtest as well.
Sorry to hear that reformatting didn't work either since that
