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...
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...
Thank you very much, I'll do that. My co-worked in the next office is one Mike O'Halloran, which is close :-)
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...