The reason for having two copies is to allow different user accounts to have different default settings. When a user starts using Finale, the files are copied to their user library. I don't know which location is more obvious to those not in the know: it may be a problem of the Mac OS that there are similar-looking folders called "Library" in different places.
I think MakeMusic are right to have different copies of the default files for different users, so that when one user edit their defaults the other users are not affected; the problem is that it's too easy to come across the originals of these files and edit them instead of the copies in your user account. If you do this, first of all it won't have any effect on your Finale defaults, and second it _will_ have an effect when somebody subsequently uses Finale for the first time in another account. It would be better if the original default files were contained in the application package itself: then the only default files that a particular user could find and edit would be in their own user account. Michael On 10 Jan 2011, at 10:50, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 1/9/2011 8:57 AM, Florence + Michael wrote: >> In that case, the pagesizes.txt that Finale is using is not the one >> you edited. The page sizes menu in the Setup Wizard is constructed >> from the pagesizes.txt file. On Mac, if you're using Finale 2011, you >> have to edit the file in the library in your user folder, not in the >> main library. >> > > And the reason they would have two different copies of the same file, > one obvious to the user but the one the program really reads from in a > different location is . . . ? > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
