No, you won't be able to work on his 2002b files with your 2001b version. Finale doesn't have backward compatibility. So anybody who is working with Finale professionally needs to keep upgrading each year (it's a tax deduction so it isn't all that bad).
Crystal Premo wrote: > So this guy who said he's bringing me MAC files on a CD shows up with a > zip disc, and I don't have a zip drive. This can be solved at Kinko's > if the original Finale operator can't do it for him, but then it came up > that this music has been done in Finale 2002b, and I have 2001b. Will I > be able to edit his old files, or only do his new song for him? > > And also: if it turns out I can't do this work for him, is there anyone > in NYC who can input two new, small pieces (piano, drums, keyboard, two > vocal lines, and maybe one other instrument) by Monday night? It's for > an off-off Broadway show. He has a limited budget and only wants to pay > ten bucks a page. There is some very light editing and part extraction > as well. > > Crystal Premo > [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
