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Jon Newton teaches classes in finale and MOTU's digital performer at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, as well as a series of seminars. He is a beta tester for finale and Digital Performer . This is the url for the web site: http://oregonmts.com/ His solution for opening a file with the correct version of the application is to drag the file you are going to open over the icon of the application you intend to use with that particular file. He specifically warns against double clicking to open a file for the very reason you are expressing in your email. I always tried double clicking before I started taking his seminars. He's also a beta tester for . Respectfully, Michael Mathew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Horton" <rayhor...@insightbb.com> To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:48:30 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [Finale] getting files to open in only one version of Finale This is the way in Windows, also, but when I do this I can't get Windows to recognize or find the newest version of Finale. Raymond Horton Bernard Savoie wrote: > I haven't seen an answer posted to your query apart from Christopher > Smith's suggestion. So here is a way to get a little bit of what you > want. > > You can right-click (or control-click) on the file you want to open to > get to the contextual menu --> Open With : will allow you to choose > which of the programs on you're system you want to open the file with. > > Not quite as simple a double-click, but a close second option. > > Bernard Savoie > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
