open recent doesn't work!!!

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tolga_tavis
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Post by tolga_tavis » Mon May 26, 2014 6:20 pm

my open recent menu is always empty. What may be the reason?
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon May 26, 2014 6:36 pm

I could be wrong here, but I seem to recall that Finale will not load the recent list in the menu, if there is anything stopping the Finale boot up process.
Restarting Finale once again or loading a document (e. g. via File menu > New > Default Document) corrects it.
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tolga_tavis
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Post by tolga_tavis » Tue May 27, 2014 9:04 am

no change... (: anyway i continue to open files from their locations...
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Post by theoceanfrog » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:11 pm

Me too - this is quite annoying, as i have files organized all over the place...

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:24 pm

tolga_tavis wrote:no change... (: anyway i continue to open files from their locations...
theoceanfrog wrote:Me too - this is quite annoying, as i have files organized all over the place...
There is a free Finale 2014 maintenance update to 2014b.
Couldn't hurt to try it.
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Post by theoceanfrog » Fri Jun 13, 2014 5:38 pm

thanks - my version is up to date.

i put in a support ticket, we'll see what make music has to say. I'll post here again, if they have a fix.

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Post by at8ax » Sat Jun 14, 2014 3:06 pm

You haven't accidentally switched the Show Recent Files setting in Program Options to zero, right? Couldn't hurt to check.

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Post by theoceanfrog » Sat Jun 14, 2014 5:02 pm

program options?

I checked in preferences and it's not an option anywhere in there... using mac osX 10.9 with Finale 2014b

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Post by miker » Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:45 pm

I can't find it, either, in 2014 or 2012. at8ax, are you on Mac or Windows? I wonder if that's a Windows Only option?

What is interesting is that the help files keep referring to four most recently saved files, but my programs show ten.

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Post by at8ax » Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:41 pm

Edit/Preferences/Open/Number of Recent Files in File Menu

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Post by theoceanfrog » Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:50 am

I think I may have figured this out.

It appears on my system - Mac OS X 10.9.5 with Finale 2014d that "Open Recent" is attached to the System Preference in the General Tab "Recent Items". If that is on, then my Open Recent in Finale works. If it is set to "none" then Open Recent stops working.

This blows, since I prefer not to have the documents I work on saved in that menu, but would very much like to have Finale remember which scores I have recently worked on.

MakeMusic, how about a fix for this?

Thanks!

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