Re: So ORIGINS is no longer in continuity with YANKEE WHITE.

On Nov 18, 2024 at 7:56:32 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Nov 18, 2024 at 6:42:55 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

 

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I had resigned myself that something like this would happen
eventually. The computer was a dinosaur, after all, so all I really
want are those files. I bought a hard drive dock off Amazon for $25
and I'm going to open up the old machine and remove the drive and put
it into this dock and plug it into my more modern Mac with the hope
that it will mount as an external non-system disk which will bypass
the corrupted system file and I can pull all those data files off it
without having to redo them all.

 

Can you run Virtual Box as a way to run the old operating system you
need for the engraving application?

 

Possibly, but it's easier just to migrate to Finale 25. It runs on the
new machine. The only reason I resisted for so long is that the parent
company--MakeMusic-- completely revamped the entire interface for Finale
after the 2014 release. All the functions are in different menus and are
applied in different ways. Some of it is an improvement, other changes are
like, WTF? Why did they do that? I now have to navigate three sub-menus
to do things I was doing with a single keystroke in 2009 version.

 

After using it for a month now, I'm getting the hang of it to the point where
I'm almost as efficient as I was with the old version.

 

Of course, as per the laws of the universe, just as I'm learning this
upgrade,
MakeMusic has announced they're discontinuing Finale altogether:

 

>
https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-dorico-letter-from-president/

 

The End of Finale

 
Ouch
 
At least they resisted the obvious pun.
 
I hope you'll be able to continue your work.

Well, I took their offer and downloaded the Dorico cross-grade. I'm leery of
it, however. It's still relatively new, so I don't know how robust it is in
terms of being able to do the advanced non-traditional notation that's
frequently found in film music. You may be able to produce a beautiful Chopin
etude but can it do 'Sub-Level 3' from ALIENS:

https://ibb.co/PWmQR8f

Not sure.

It also supposedly upends the entire paradigm of music notation software
interface. There are oodles of YouTube tutorials but having to re-learn
something so complicated from the ground up does not fill me with enthusiasm.
The company I do this work for has already emailed me telling me to hold off
because Dorico files aren't compatible with their systems.