On 11/10/2011 5:03 AM, Patricia Spedden wrote: > I continue to have problems getting metatools--specifically > articulation metatools--to work. In past projects these have worked > perfectly, but suddenly now they won't work. Each metatool seems to > program just fine, but when I try to use them they rarely work. For > example, I like to use numbers 1-5 for piano fingering numbers, but > have to click on a note many, many times to get an occasional > fingering number to appear. Often, the number I'm attempting to enter > changes a previous finger number (that finally worked) instead of the > note I'm actually clicking. > > Today, I upgraded to Finale 2012 for Windows XP2 on my Dell Latitude > D830 laptop, and still no luck in getting the metatools to work more > than occasionally. Very frustrating. Could it be a hardware > problem? A memory problem? Windows XP blocking macros? My security > programs blocking macros (Sophus, CC Cleaner, SuperAntiSpyware, > MalwareBytes AntiMalware)? I've read advice to Mac users that they > can discard a corrupt preferences file to sometimes correct this bug. > What takes the place of the Mac Preferences file in Windows > machines? > > I'd so much appreciate help with this. >
I believe the answer may lie in your operating system and/or the specs for your computer. Using my Win7-Home 64bit HP computer with 4GB of ram, I have no problems at all using the metatools in Fin2012. I don't think that Finale metatools would be looked on by your operating system as Macros, such as might be blocked by a security program. I think that WinXP is simply too old for these newer tools. Or it might be simply that your processor is too slow or you don't have enough RAM for handling the higher demands of the newer versions of Finale. There isn't a Windows equivalent of the Mac Preferences files that could be trashed and then be rebuilt by the OS. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
