Reading old files
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:55 am
[Apologies if this appears again: my original post on the topic has vanished]
I have several hundred Finale 2.6 files from 1992 which I want to open in a current version (I downloaded the free trial but that will now have expired).
They apparently ought to open (they were Mac files but have been renamed to end in .mus), but they don't: Finale v25 claims it "cannot open this filetype" but does not give any further information, so it is not possible to diagnose the error.
Does anyone out there have any files of this age that they could check out the first few bytes with a hex editor and let me know how they start? The ones I have start with x00x00x00x00x00x00x99xFFxC0.
Is anyone in a position to let me send them a few of the files and see if they open in some other version of Finale. The project to which the files belong cannot spend the money for a new version unless they know it will open all the files.
Peter
I have several hundred Finale 2.6 files from 1992 which I want to open in a current version (I downloaded the free trial but that will now have expired).
They apparently ought to open (they were Mac files but have been renamed to end in .mus), but they don't: Finale v25 claims it "cannot open this filetype" but does not give any further information, so it is not possible to diagnose the error.
Does anyone out there have any files of this age that they could check out the first few bytes with a hex editor and let me know how they start? The ones I have start with x00x00x00x00x00x00x99xFFxC0.
Is anyone in a position to let me send them a few of the files and see if they open in some other version of Finale. The project to which the files belong cannot spend the money for a new version unless they know it will open all the files.
Peter