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My bigger issue with what I’ve been seeing of Dorico since yesterday is that I have to really unlearn Finale and try to figure out ways to accomplish the same with Dorico. Yes, if you’re already ve...
Subscription? Finale has never been a subscription.
If you use a virtual machine, most likely no. It can be used for many many years. But if you don’t use a VM and eventually need to migrate to a new computer as we all do, then finale will no longe...
@Doug: thank you! This is extremely useful information and I will proceed with that. The more I'm playing with Dorico the more I'm driving myself nuts to conform to its way of doing things. I was j...
@MichaelSirotta: no one has to migrate anything by August, 2025. It's only a matter of when you would need to install or migrate Finale to a new CPU that it will be an issue.
In some ways, I'd rather go to MuseScore than Dorico-the latter seems pretty complicated and I just don't have the time or patience at this point to both unlearn Finale and learn Dorico. On the oth...
@Doug-thanks. I am speaking exactly about a new computer. I recently updated my MBP after five years but am pretty sure I had to reauthorize Finale on my new machine even with Migration Assistant d...
My best advice: avoid anything that claims to "clean" your Mac's SSD. There are many such utilities and they can really screw things up.
Why do you like having the time stamp incremented if there are no edits/changes whatsoever? For me, that would be problematic for many things like Word documents, etc. I often search based on when ...
I'm going to be optimistic and say "yes and yes." Given the inertia many of us have commented upon for some time now, that might not be reality-based.