I may have found a reason for the problem: In 2006 I bought the then best Mac Pro desktop, which is still my main workhorse for all serious work also in Finale. It is fast enough for smooth playback, redraws sufficiently fast, and with its two video cards it allows me to run four monitors: one for musical source files, one for tool palettes (especially the score manager), and two for different views of the score worked on.
But this Mac Pro cannot run any system newer than OS X 10.7.5. And it has a quite slow start up, so I only use it for when I plan on longer work sessions. Much of my musical proofreading happens in my head while I do other things. When I get in doubt about what I wrote then I open the files for a look on my newer Mac Book Pro (runs the newest system) to which I do back-ups via my LAN. I tried opening a large and complex (for me) FM2012 file in FM2014 on the Mac Book, and that worked all fine. I opened that converted file on my older desktop. When I opened via LAN from the laptop disk it looked all fine, except that the File Manager looked like the Garritan Personal Orchestra sounds had not been set. Playback however was all fine with the right sounds. I then transferred the converted file back to the disk of the desktop Mac and opened it from there. Same result, but for one oddity: The timpani line had blocks of grey artifacts at the bottom of the stave and just below. That part has a lot of rolls notated with the 3 fat strokes tremolo articulation. I could see that the grey blots actually are the very small single note values of the rolls being tightly compressed. I tried printing the file to .pdf and the artifacts do not print to .pdf. Still they look ugly in the Finale window. You likely haven't tested every Finale aspect with older systems, but as 10.7.5 has the main features to run FM2014, it would be nice if the problems with the non-opening FM2012 files and with the said artifacts would be correct in an update. Klaus On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:16 PM, "Phillips, Justin" <[email protected]> wrote: After a reboot, does the same problem occur? >___________________________________ >Justin Phillips >Senior Product Manager > >M 952 € 388 € 3064 D 952 € 818 € 3819 >F 952 € 818 € 3919 www.makemusic.com <http://www.makemusic.com/> > ><http://www.makemusic.com/> > > > > >On 11/5/13, 3:08 AM, "Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre" <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>I have been able to open one not too complex FM2012 document in FM2014. >> >>However I mostly get messages like these: >> >>While attempting to access ³KB Koral basis 2012.mus² the File Manager >>reported an error. >> >> >>While attempting to access ³EnigmaTemp-1449746605² the File Manager >>reported an error. >> >>Anything I can do? >> >>Klaus >>_______________________________________________ >>Finale mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
