Upgrading Finale 2012 to use it with Catalina

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Claudia
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Post by Claudia » Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:24 pm

I’m using Finale 2012 on my MacBook Pro, early 2011, El Capitan. Apart from the Human Playback issue, it is working fine. Now I have a new iMac 2019, Catalina. I transferred all my files from my old computer and of course the Finale icon is inactive. I would like to upgrade it, to use it on this new computer. How can I do that?
I read that some version is not working well with Catalina. Which version should I upgrade to?
Is it possible to just upgrade it and not to buy a whole new version? I have the CD, so I suppose I could keep the old version on my laptop.
Thanks in advance.


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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:30 pm

You should contact the folks at MakeMusic, and ask whether you can get an upgrade discount for upgrading from Finale 2012 to Finale v26.
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996

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miker
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Post by miker » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:19 pm

Finale 27 | SmartScorePro 64
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motet
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Post by motet » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:52 pm

In the past, at least, one could get the upgrade price no matter which previous version. My history is something like

2004->2005->2011->2014.5

and I've always been charged for an upgrade only.

Claudia
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Post by Claudia » Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:33 pm

many thanks, I'll contact the store.

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