On 4 Oct 2010 at 9:34, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > So.......I could list some more, but I see no other Mac program that > out right stores pretty much the same stuff in TWO locations.
You choose as your example a Microsoft program? My point is that you basically shouldn't care about the "archive" copies of the files in the application folder, just as you don't care about whatever "magic" Microsoft apps use to create their template files. That's likely hardwired somewhere non-obvious in the application and the configuration files, and not alterable by the end user, and you just don't worry about it -- you just let the application do its job. If that means a new installation of Word has the wrong font in your Normal.dot document template, that's just the way it works. Likewise, with Finale, you should basically be ignoring the "reference" files in the application folder. They are for Finale's use, not yours. The ones that are for *your* use are the ones in the user folder. The difference between MS Office and Finale is that MS is more obscure about where it's getting its reference files from. There is no real difference, though, in that somewhere there's a definition of what the default templates are going to be in a newly-created user profile. Finale just makes it easier to figure out where those are coming from. But that doesn't mean you should care about those files at all. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
