Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Dec 2003, at 09:19 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I do not have "a reasonably decent backup system." I've been backing up to CDs, wh. are immensely smaller than my boot drive. Even if I invested in an auxiliary drive just for backups, there's all those invisible system files that wouldn't copy

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
But Andrew brought up a remarkably similar issue several months ago and you proffered the same advice. Obviously he hasn't purchased DW and why should he? Seems to me that if one has a reasonably decent backup system, it's a useless expense because using Apple's Disk Utility does a good job at

[Finale] document platform translation

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
Can anybody tell me how to get Apple Works 6 to open a Windows MS Word document (postscript ".doc")? It ought to be able to, but I've never been able to get it to do so. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Dec 2003 at 6:14, Philip Aker wrote: > On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 12:07 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > The one thing about OS X that I don't really understand is why a .x > > upgrade would break programs that ran well on the previous release. > > What's that about? > > I'd have to

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 07:28 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: What now? Boot from the Panther installation CD and run Disk Utility. Let it fix everything it wants to fix. If this won't solve the problem, you will probably need to reformat your drive and start f

Re: [Finale] Cannot Create Font DC

2003-12-15 Thread saxomal
Thanks for this. I am currently in contact with Winsupport and will pass on any info as and when... I'll also try not to overburden the system. Malcolm On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:21:32 -0500, "Dennis Bathory-Kitsz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 09:07 AM 12/14/03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >W

Re: [Finale] Expand bug? (FinWin2004a)

2003-12-15 Thread James Gilbert
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Richard Huggins wrote: > First, this is not a bug. Thanks for your detailed explanation about optimized systems. I had a suspicion it wasn't a bug. As I said, I don't usually mess with optimized systems - once optimized, except for an occassional staff spacing, I'm done. In t

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy James Argue wrote: What now? Boot from the Panther installation CD and run Disk Utility. Let it fix everything it wants to fix. If this won't solve the problem, you will probably need to reformat your drive and start fresh, but hopefully Norton didn't foul things up beyond the point of

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-15 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 12:07 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The one thing about OS X that I don't really understand is why a .x upgrade would break programs that ran well on the previous release. What's that about? I'd have to have a specific example to comment. Is Apple removing functio