Hi Raymond, I have been having very similar issues with a two-act opera I’ve been working on. Each act is about 1500 measures, full orchestra and up to 18 characters in vocal lines with lyrics. Everything you’re experiencing I have been dealing with for the past several months: saving file takes up to 18-20 seconds. time signature changes takes about 90 seconds. instrument changes take over a minute. JW Navigation plugin refuses to work at all on these files, but it works fine on other files. Lyric editing can be most frustrating. I have each character with its own separate verse for overall organization, and sometimes, when selecting a verse, I get the spinning beachball for over a minute. But it’s quite random. File size more than doubled when converting from 2012.
This is all in Finale Mac 2014. 2014.5 is worse; completely unusable. And, to be honest, things weren’t much better back in 2012. I abandoned that version since it’s quite buggy under my current OS, Yosemite 10.10.5. I have discussed these issues with MM, and they confirm Finale doesn’t like large files! No shit Sherlock!! I know this doesn’t help your situation, but you’re not alone here. *************************** J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On Jul 23, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Raymond Horton <horton.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One more one more thing. Trudging along in 2014 now , I have been reminded > that every time signature change takes a very long time, about a minute or > so. I hope I can move this file back to 2012 before I die of boredom or old > age or both. > > Raymond Horton > Composer, Arranger > Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church > Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 > > > On Jul 23, 2016 3:25 PM, "Raymond Horton" <horton.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I promised this several weeks ago but put it off. Unfortunately, today I >> was forced to go back and forth between the two versions because my file >> kept crashing in 2012. >> (Windows 10 , three year old computer that should be fast enough for most >> apps.) >> The file in question is more than 2,000 measures for orchestra, 5 voice >> parts, and two pianos. Orchestra is 8 Woodwinds, five brass, timpani, >> percussion, and a xylophone - Glockenspiel staff. >> Saving this file in 2012 takes about 3 seconds, in 2014 22 seconds! >> Exporting the 2014 file to a 2012 file takes about 11 seconds. >> So, I have been working on it in 2012 for the past several months. But the >> good news for 2014 is that the crashing that has been happening, today >> only, every time I edit a certain part of the score happens in 2012 but not >> 2014. So, despite the time problems, I may need to finish this file in 2014. >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
