On 30 Nov 2010 at 23:20, Aaron Sherber wrote: > On 11/30/2010 10:36 PM, Michael Greensill wrote: > > Thanks guys, there it is....you'd think that they'd tell us this > > stuff. > I know MM doesn't always do the best job of communicating these > things, but the Readme does say: > > *_Folder Reorganization_* > > To accommodate the autonomy of each of a computer's multiple users, > and to prevent permissions issues, Finale 2011 installs its components > to various locations on your hard drive depending on their function > and required accessibility. See "Finale Installation Details" in the > User Manual for more information. > > And if you look up that section in the manual (use the Index), you > should see a fairly complete discussion of what goes where.
It's somewhat shocking to me that this kind of thing only happened recently. Both OS X and all NT-based versions of Windows should have been organized this way all along (though it's true that Vista/Win7 make some changes on the location of user and application data, while early versions of OS X were slightly different than later ones). Simply put, from the release of OS X (2000?) and WinXP (2001), this is the way Finale should have worked, because that's the way those OS's organized user and application data. MM is not alone in being late to this party, but they are much later than any other software I know about (other than stuff that's ported from Linux, which is usually horrible in this regard). -- 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
