Saving Human Playback Preferences

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Post by shnootre » Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:29 pm

Greetings,

I painstakingly created a very detailed Human Playback Preferences set. When I open another file, and try to apply the same set to that file, I see that the name exists, but it is not the same as it is the other file. Quite different, with many things missing, and other stuff I deleted there (e.g. all the Garritan settings).

I don't see a way to export the Human Playback preferences files as a library. Is there something I'm missing? I tried setting the HP settings to "locked" in the original file, but that made no difference.

Don't want to have re-enter all those settings!
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Post by zuill » Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:02 pm

The documentation says that naming and saving a set of preferences makes it available to other files. That is basically the same as creating a library. If your saved preferences are not what they were when saving, maybe there is a bug that MakeMusic should know about. Have you reported the issue to them?

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Post by shnootre » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:13 pm

I haven't reported it yet - I thought maybe there was something I was missing. There doesn't seem to be a way to actually save a Preferences set. You can hit "Apply," and you can save the overall Finale file.

Outside of that, I guess I'm not missing anything and should file a claim?
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Post by zuill » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:17 pm

I would. Let them explain it from their perspective. If they can't get it to work, maybe there is a bug.

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Post by Bill Reed » Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:25 pm

Be sure to uncheck the "Attack to *filename* checkbox
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Post by MikeHalloran » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:05 pm

You should be able to retrieve your preferences from Time Machine assuming that you use it and allowed indexing

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-so ... p-3449071/

Restoring one set of preferences is time consuming but, if you know the name of the file and where to look, it can be done.
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Post by shnootre » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:08 pm

Just to clarify,

I haven't lost a set of preferences - they still exist on the file for which I made them. But I'm finding that while the NAME of that set of preferences is available to me in the new file (not actually a new file, but one I'm editing), the content is totally different.

I DO have "attach to file" checked on the first one, because I want to make sure that the Prefs are always attached. But that's a good point, does that mean it won't be available, changed, in other files?

Will experiment with that and report.
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Post by shnootre » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:11 pm

Yes.

That solved it. I guess having it attached to the first file made it so that that HP prefs set didn't update?

Strange. I WOULD like to keep it attached, so that every time I open the file those prefs are there, but I guess I can live without doing that. Seems like there should be an option to both a) keep it attached to a file, and b) have the same set of preferences available for another file?
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