floating boxes don't appear

[lynndavidnewton]

Running recent most recent Finale (as far as I know) on macOS 14.5, M2 silicon.
This problem is unrelated to the other two I just posted.
The problem has existed for most of a year.
My third question for the day, a record for me.
I'll shut up after this.

It's specific to the M2 Mini. It doesn't happen on my laptop running Monterey 12.7.5 in my music studio.

I set up my preferences in Finale so that when I open a project, I have several of the floating windows strung across the top in this order from left to right

o Playback Controls
o Main
o Simple
o Special
o Shapes
o Rests

(I could get rid of rests since I never use it.)

After an upgrade a while ago, I found that the Main Special and I think the Simple boxes do not appear. I have to explicitly select them from the Window menu and drag them into place.

Often, if I change my focus to another app such as a browser and then go back, the windows will be gone and I have to reselect them from the Window menu.

Occasionally, I will stumble across them on a different desktop where I don't have Finale or anything else running. I use numerous desktops, so this can be an adventure.

It's not that big a deal but it isn't supposed to work that way. And I have to do it every single time I open a project, and often when I switch between apps. That's when it gets to be annoying.

Is this a known problem? Something I can fix?

Thanks for your patience.

[miker]

It's working correctly for me.

Maybe refresh the preferences? That might help with the other problems, as well.

[lynndavidnewton]

miker> Maybe refresh the preferences?

This didn't work. I haven't looked at my Settings for quite a while. I tweaked a few things, but I don't know where it is that you tell Finale which of those windows you want to come up when you open a file. It's just always worked (for many years).

Correction to my original post. The boxes that DO come up are:
Playback
Main
Simple
Rests (which I'd like to delete, though there's no harm in having it)

The palettes I have to call up every time are
Smart Shapes
Special Tools

This happens on all projects, old and new.

[miker]

Those two palettes will close, unless you UNCHECK “Close Subsidiary Palettes When Leaving Tool” in Preferences > Palettes and Backgrounds.

[lynndavidnewton]

Unchecking "Close Subsidiary Palettes When Leaving Tool" works, too!
This has been a productive day.
Thanks to all who have helped.