Finale Forum

I don't have COMB, but I suspect you'll need to create a Document Style that uses COMB. If you select the default Styles, they will be configured to use GIFF.

Once you've saved a Document Style and saved it into the Styles folder, then it can be selected in Setup Wizard.

Is there a way to present this information to MM that makes it sound like a more general bug, and not just related to the use of a third-party sound library?

zuill wrote:You said you changed the extension to .mus. What was the extension before?

Old Mac files didn't need file extensions, so they were frequently omitted. The data type and app association was held in metadata.

Have you saved your preferences? They stay put for me.

The ones I have start with x00x00x00x00x00x00x99xFFxC0. That doesn't sound good. Finale files start with the text: "ENIGMA BINARY FILE Finale(R) 2007 Copyright (c) 1987-2006 MakeMusic Inc." (or variations). Check your backups for different versions of these files. Note that Mac Finale files before ...

You should send the crash log to MakeMusic. It's very difficult to diagnose this sort of thing without lots of information: third-party software, hardware, etc.

It's certainly not the usual experience, so it should be fixable. Any reason you haven't upgraded to Sierra?

Not quite sure I understand your setup, but using a different Device or different Bank in the Score Manager allows you to use different devices or MIDI instruments.

miker wrote:Hold the CTRL key as you move the system.

It's ALT (option) on the Mac. (For me, at least.)

The same is true for Staves with the Staff Tool, as well as Systems with Page Layout Tool.

zuill wrote:If a copy of the defective file was saved first, this can be done. If not, then that would be impossible, unless it's still in the trash.

What no backup? There should be a file from yesterday, at the least. Then use a text file comparison utility to show what the differences are.

Gareth Green wrote:OK, so trashing the .INI files seems to have fixed it. Does anyone know a way of editing the old preferences files to fix the problem?

Compare a copy of the file from this morning with one from after Finale went funny.

Finale's Ideal Staff Height is a third of an inch, or ... 24 points. And the music font is designed to display at that size. So the symbols in Maestro at 24pt will fit perfectly on a full-size staff. And it's close to traditional Rastral gauge 1. The Resulting Scaling is just the % size of your staf...

iBlues wrote:Yes, I've tried that many times, thanks.

It's not clear whether you've had success with the "Manage Authorisations" link given above. Are you able to get to that page? What happens?

If the Mac OS's PDF thing has options, check those. No: MacOS makes one flavour of PDF: Version 1.3, fonts embedded. Because the OS's graphics engine is almost PDF to start with, wrapping the data up in PDF is a minimal conversion. These sorts of issues are why I still output as PostScript, and the...

Unfortunately, complex problems of this type are very difficult to solve remotely, by MM or anyone else. However, you should take heart that it does seem to be a rare issue and so should be fixable. It may well mean other factors are involved, which could include a failing storage device; incorrect ...

You can click on the right hand side of the text field. I suspect the "rectangle" round the label "Measures" is overlapping with the text field.

I'll pass it on to MM.

I have heard someone say that Finale's Graphic Export doesn't always embed fonts [+/- properly]. I commend the Adobe PDF specification documentation to any insomniacs out there. Font embedding, subsetting, encoding and substitution is a lengthy topic. However, I can certainly vouch that MacOS's font...

The program won't open. The program suddenly closes while editing a file and things are unsaved. Something big goes horribly wrong and a whole file is trashed. Is this still the case? Your other thread seems to suggest everything is now working. I think it was 2012 that would crash with certain MID...

At the very least, you could use a Staff Style to hide the name in the parts.

My own suggestion is to save (Command-S) every 5 minutes or less. If you'd like to make incremental backups for any reason, open the thumb drive, find the latest backup, duplicate the file, and rename it something that identifies that particular version. "If it's repetitive and tedious, the compute...

sadly, there doesn't seem to be any way to automate the erroneous hairpin placement that Finale 25 uses by default. and complaints to MakeMusic appear to have fallen on deaf ears (ironic for a music software company). .... Except for their inclusion of the "Snap When Attaching To Beats" toggle in t...

Rather than use Finale's limited "backup" feature, I use an app called "Forever Save 2", which you can set to save successive version files of any given app at any given time interval. I have it set to save Finale files every 2 minutes, so I rarely lose anything in the rare event that something goes...

I suspect many players might not even notice that the turn is "the wrong way round" if the other one is not nearby to compare.

I don't think even Sherlock Holmes could sleuth out why Finale decided to change the appearance of the bar line. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Either you accidentally clicked or typed what was necessary to set the Dashed line (wh...

The file opens and saves for me, so that suggests the problem is not with the file. If you've got an unsaved version, try saving as a Clip File. (Select all, then Alt Command C). You can paste it into this document with Alt Command V later. Next, try a reboot, which should clear the temp folders tha...

Measure Attributes: the Left barline is set to be dashed.