installing Finale 2006 Mac Mojave OS

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Finale6roy
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Post by Finale6roy » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:45 am

My Finale 2006 installs fine on Windows 7 but trying to install it on Mac Mojave OS. My 2013 iMac sees the installer file but has a caution symbol on it, when I double click on file it will not load. The disk I have says it is for Windows and Mac OS. Any help Please, thanks.


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motet
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Post by motet » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:57 am

Apple has never tried to make things backwardly compatible, forcing Finale users to upgrade as the Mac OS evolved, so I suspect you're out of luck.

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Post by Finale6roy » Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:54 am

Think the problem may be that Finale 2006 is 32bit and I am trying to run it on 64bit OS. Saw a video where a guy used Virtual Machine to emulate an older OS version to run a 32bit program on his Mac, I may try that and see. Anybody know if that is save to run on your Mac? The full version of Finale for Mac is too expensive for me since it's just a hobby for me and I actually like my 2006 version better. The music and note pallets are too small in the new version in my opinion.

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Post by BuonTempi » Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:32 am

The upgrade price is $99; but if you can't afford that, then TBH, I'd recommend using the free MuseScore notation app, rather than trying to get 16-year-old software working.

If you still have the Windows 7 machine, you can export your old files as MusicXML. Or use the latest demo.

IIRC, Finale 2006 was still compiled for Apple's old PowerPC CPUs, and support for that was removed in 2010. If you wanted to run 2006 in a VM, you'd have to get a copy of Snow Leopard or earlier.
motet wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:57 am
Apple has never tried to make things backwardly compatible, forcing Finale users to upgrade as the Mac OS evolved, so I suspect you're out of luck.
Apple does spend a lot of effort maintaining compatibility with older code, but with clear warnings that such support will not be indefinite. If the OS still could run 32-bit code, PPC code (68000 code?), it would be 8 times the size, with 4 times as many bugs, and little progress.

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Post by motet » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:27 pm

I'm certainly not an expert on the Mac, but my impression is that backward compatibility has always been a problem, even before the processor switch or 32/64-bit issues. "I've upgraded my Macbook to Teddy Bear and now the scroll bars have disappeared!"

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Post by BuonTempi » Sun Oct 16, 2022 5:08 pm

motet wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:27 pm
I'm certainly not an expert on the Mac, but my impression is that backward compatibility has always been a problem, even before the processor switch or 32/64-bit issues. "I've upgraded my Macbook to Teddy Bear and now the scroll bars have disappeared!"
It takes two to tango: I'd suggest that Finale's track record on compatibility is not (or has not been in the past) a benchmark of the average Mac app.

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Post by Zoots » Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:15 pm

There is a lot of info that says Windows is more backwards compatible than Mac regardless of application. If you go way back to even before Windows when the machines were considered "IBM", backwards compatibility was a key factor in any new release because of the large number of business installations that Apple didn't have to contend with which is why the Mac development team was told to start totally from new. PC compatibility has been a feature and it has also been a detriment since it means that old things can't be dumped when it would be a good idea. Windows 11 with its insistence upon a certain level of processor and Trusted Platform Module is seen as the first major departure from backwards compatibility. Anyway, I'm not gone to get drawn any further into PC vs Mac wars since they both have their good and bad points so just use whichever one you want.
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Post by Finale6roy » Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:58 pm

Thanks I may see about getting the upgrade to my Mac or just use it on my Windows7. I know it works on my Windows PC.

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