Peter Flynn commented,
You will recall I had an identical problem with old Finale files with no filetype. I never found any way to open them, and Finale themselves were wholly uninterested in helping. Moot now, as the pr...
Peter Flynn commented,
Thank you very much, I'll do that. My co-worked in the next office is one Mike O'Halloran, which is close :-)
Peter Flynn commented,
OK, it's clear that the Windows version of F25 won't open the files either, although weirdly the error message says the same thing but is worded differently: "Invalid file type, file C:\Users\pflyn...
Peter Flynn commented,
So I renamed one from .mus to .musx but it had the same effect, "Finale cannot open the selected filetype." Double-click gets the same result. They can't be PDFs because they don't start with the P...
Peter Flynn commented,
I have been discussing in another thread about the problems of getting some Finale 2.6 files from 1992 to open in v25. They apparently ought to open (they were Mac files but have been renamed to en...
Peter Flynn commented,
Thank you, Michael J...interesting. Maybe these are not Finale files, although that was the software the project used, and they were on disks in folders labelled "Finale files". I described the for...
Peter Flynn commented,
OK, I've had some more time to work on this (it being a holiday Monday here). Mike is right, of course: getting the files open is the first step. Renaming them was trivial as they had no extension:...
Peter Flynn commented,
I don't have Finale (yet) nor have I ever used it. I can trivially rename the files to add .mus from the command line (as I said, they came from a Mac system where no file extensions were used). T...
Peter Flynn created a post,
Please excuse my ignorance here: I am not a Finale user. I have been given several thousand Finale files and I would like to find out if it is possible to extract the data in a portable format (eg ...