At 04:31 PM 4/21/04 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: >However, it's still weird that Finale updaters leave the old >application intact by default. This is not standard at all -- the >expected behavior is that the old version will be replaced by the new >version.
Is this a Mac/PC difference? Updaters and patches from Finale have always in the past updated the application itself (I stopped at 2003). The default of many full applications is a new installation rather than an overwrite. Many other full applications overwrite only when the current application path is accepted; otherwise they perform a new install. I'm grateful most applications are *not* so smart as to overwrite! I'm glancing at my frequent app list and see that Finale, Netscape, Sonar, Opera, AudioMulch, Cool Edit, Video Factory, Eudora, Paint Shop Pro, GIF Construction Set and Analog Box are among those that only overwrite if requested. Those that very annoyingly update with no choice are Internet Explorer and all the Adobe applications I have. I'm hoping that now that Adobe has taken over Cool Edit that the next Adobe Audition upgrade (which did not overwrite Cool Edit Pro) will behave itself and give me a separate application path. There's a good reason for not updating the application unless requested: Bugs. For example, Cool Edit 2000 worked fine with all VST plugins, but Cool Edit Pro did not, nor does Adobe Audition. Had it done an automatic overwrite, I would have lost access to some very important plugins that still work by switching over to the original Cool Edit 2000. Likewise, I happily have several Finale installs so I can edit earlier scores from others without making them incompatible for previous versions when I send them back. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
