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by michael graubart
Mon May 17, 2021 7:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

I use AppCleaner to get rid of unwanted apps, and sometimes EasyFind to dig out hidden or invisible remnants.
by michael graubart
Mon May 17, 2021 5:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

This is very useful advice. Thank you. As far as my particular problem is concerned, I realized that the excessive file size was created by some kind of duplication of pages. So I separated the pdf into separate pages, processed only the 2 or 3 pages on which I had made edits, then reassembled the s...
by michael graubart
Mon May 17, 2021 9:33 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Thank you for your reply. But my problem was precisely that no copy was created in Documents/Finale Files/Backups.

Much water has passed under the bridge since then, and I have not checked this misbehaviour lately.
by michael graubart
Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:41 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

That sounds a really good, systematic scheme, Zuill. Actually I only use one version of Finale (currently v. 26) on a Mac (Mojave). But even so I shall think about adopting a scheme like this. Thank you.
by michael graubart
Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

I have now done some more testing of Finale’s backup facility by creating small Finale files and saving them with different preference combinations of Make Backups When Saving Files (‘Backups’) and Auto Save File(s) Every … Minutes (‘Auto Save’). As it seems that some apparently random behaviours ma...
by michael graubart
Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:03 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Thank you once more. Later on I shall do more experimenting and report back.
by michael graubart
Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

No, I am afraid it now turns out that that was not the problem. When I read Buon Tempi's message, I was delighted, of course, but forgot that I had already checked the Preferences. Here is a screenshot of my Preferences setting. Screenshot 2020-11-07 at 19.52.12.png It is beginning to seem that ther...
by michael graubart
Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

PS: Buon Tempi, thank you, too, for the recommendations for pdf editing tools. I shall explore them.
by michael graubart
Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Buon Tempi, you have lived up to your name! That is precisely the answer to my general problem. And Zuill, thank you for the recommendation for future work, which I shall follow. In this particular instance, my score was saved, but somehow got deleted later. Thank you both veery much indeed.
by michael graubart
Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Thanks v. much for that tip. But I described the use of TIFF for editing a pdf copy of a lost .musx file - too late for backup!

Reverting to backups, am I not right in thinking that Finale used to save backups (.bakx) automatically when saving a score as .musx?
by michael graubart
Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:02 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Thank you all for a variety of suggestions. gogreen: yes, I did. Nothing found. This overrides most other search possibilities, except Time Machine and CCC, which I shall try in due course. motet: yes, it points to the right location. David Ward: this makes good sense, and I had earlier on thought o...
by michael graubart
Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:37 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

Re: No Backups

Thank you both — but the point of my post was precisely that there was no backup of my score in Finale files/Backup, and I have since then confirmed that no new scores are backed up. And I repeat that in Finale Preferences, Backups is checked. I have not yet had time to check up in my Time Machine b...
by michael graubart
Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:20 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: No Backups
Replies: 30
Views: 6515

No Backups

I use Finale 26 on a Mac with OS Mojave. To my dismay, possibly after the update to v. 26 or at some other time, Finale is not creating backups of saved scores any more. As a consequence I have lost an accidentally deleted score of a choral piece that had been commissioned for the BBC Singers! (Fort...
by michael graubart
Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:21 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating 'ossias'
Replies: 2
Views: 1591

Re: Floating 'ossias'

The question was: I have ossias for viola and 'cellol in my score. When I extracted the parts, the ossias were shown as empty measures in the separate parts. Why? And what can I do about it? What I did as a practical way of creating usable parts was to delete the empty measures in the parts and to r...
by michael graubart
Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena
Replies: 6
Views: 3313

Re: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena

I'm afraid I don't understand what this complication is all about. I tried the suggestion of using graphics, and it worked brilliantly — and simply. All I did was to create the ossia in a separate Finale file ('create', of course, means getting spacing, etc., right and reducing it to a single measur...
by michael graubart
Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena
Replies: 6
Views: 3313

Re: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena

Now, that’s a brilliant idea! Allows one freedom to place the ossia measure wherever it seems clearest. Thank you very much.
by michael graubart
Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena
Replies: 6
Views: 3313

Re: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena

MG Flute Quartet score being edited, to 77 - Cello+OSSIA.musx Thanks for this, Motet. The trouble with my present project, however, is that the page on which I wanted to place the ossia is so crowded and congested (something that I actually cannot do much about because of the need for page turns) t...
by michael graubart
Tue Apr 09, 2019 6:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Ossias: strange phenomena
Replies: 6
Views: 3313

Floating Ossias: strange phenomena

Finale 26, MacOS 10.14.4. I am editing an instrumental part, earlier extracted from a score which contains a floating ossia measure in this part. As I said in an earlier post, the extracted part contained the floating ossia measure, but the measure was empty. I should still welcome responses to this...
by michael graubart
Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating 'ossias'
Replies: 2
Views: 1591

Floating 'ossias'

MG Flute Quartet score being edited, to 148 - Viola.musx MG Flute Quartet score being edited, to 148.musx Finale 26, MacOS 10.14.4 Further to my previous cri de coeur , I have somehow managed to extract the viola part from the attached quartet score, though I am not sure how I did it and should be ...
by michael graubart
Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'
Replies: 4
Views: 2284

Re: Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'

That's the answer, zuill; thank you very much. Maximising my window didn't do it — it was maximised already — but the icon of three little lines at top right of the screen did! I was sure that I had already tried that, but I clearly had not. I am working on a score whose manuscript original is notat...
by michael graubart
Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:22 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'
Replies: 4
Views: 2284

Re: Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'

Screenshot 2019-04-05 at 20.10.27.png Yes, Motet, you are understanding my question, but your pictorial answer would be just what I am looking for if only I could find it. If I have a score open that I am working on and I click on Help, what I see is not what you have shown me, but what I attach to...
by michael graubart
Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'
Replies: 4
Views: 2284

Accessing the Index in Finale 'Help'

Finale 26 Mac, OS 10.14.4 This is doubtless a stupid question, but in the past I have found the Index — the text Index, not the visual one — within the Help system a very good way of accessing information that cannot be located in the User Manual. (Try opening the Manual and searching for 'Rests'!) ...
by michael graubart
Tue Apr 02, 2019 4:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Artificial beams as shape-expressions — instability
Replies: 5
Views: 2319

Artificial beams as shape-expressions — instability

I have Finale 26 on a Mac with MacOS 10.14.4. I am typesetting an old score of mine that was notated in the original MS with a great deal of beaming across barlines. For reasons to do with redundant accidentals, not all such cases could be dealt with by means of the Patterson plug-in, so I have had ...
by michael graubart
Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:27 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Ossias: no slurs or hairpins
Replies: 28
Views: 6282

Re: Ossias: no slurs or hairpins

Many thanks to both of you. I knew about hiding empty staves, but not about the 'cutaway' facility.
by michael graubart
Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:33 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Ossias: no slurs or hairpins
Replies: 28
Views: 6282

Re: Ossias: no slurs or hairpins

Thank you so much for your amazingly quick reply. I have just tried your suggestion, but I cannot see how to make the added staff invisible where there are no notes in it. Sorry to impose further on your time.