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David Toub commented,
It is not MM's responsibility to migrate people to Dorico for free. Separate companies and separate revenue streams.
David Toub commented,
Mike, unless finale is on a self-contained VM, the hardware (whether an APFS-formatted external drive or an APFS partition on the Mac itself) will be locked to that CPU for authentication as someon...
David Toub commented,
Interesting; thanks Mike. A shame the Dorico folks haven't considered something like that. My impression, which is consistent with what I sensed some time ago, is that Dorico pretty consistently wa...
David Toub commented,
Unfortunately, Mike, that isn't a viable solution longer term, since a connected disk volume would be authenticated based on the specific CPU, and migrating to a new machine would then require anot...
David Toub commented,
I am not aware of any issues between Finale and Sequoia. I'm just saying Sequoia has other issues, like too many nagging prompts on a recurring basis.
David Toub commented,
Sequoia has some annoying frequently-recurring security prompts (eg, screen recording, which impacts Zoom and other videoconferencing apps) so I would also recommend holding off. Not much in the de...
David Toub commented,
Quite correct. Which is why I'm at least trying out Dorico in parallel with finishing a new work in Finale this Labor Day weekend. I'm still on the fence; Dorico doesn't really feel like home to me...
David Toub commented,
I would think one could use Finale 27 much the same as he/she does now, just locked to that VM.
David Toub commented,
@Vanessa: hi! There are other options, like a virtual machine running your current OS. That should be reasonably future-proofed. @kevin: I have not used a VM in years; I think I used it in the earl...
David Toub commented,
Third option: load the current OS on a virtual machine and load Finale there. It should be fine until and unless your OS no longer allows virtual machines and that is unlikely for several years if ...