MIKE HALLORAN
Finale 27.4,1, SmartScorePro 64, All of the Garritan Libraries, NotePerformer 5.0.1, 10TB other VIs ... 2023 M2 Mac Studio Ultra 192GB RAM, 8TB, macOS Sequoia 15.7.2 / Tahoe 26.1; Overture 5. Notion 6, Dorico Pro 6, MuseScore 4.5.x, Encore 5.0.7 over Mojave—2012 MBP, DP11, Logic Pro, BIAB Audiophile 2025… Conductor, Singer, Arranger, Composer (former bassist), Retired ASCAP. 40+ years experience solving Mac problems; spent years in Windows and UNIX support
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- WARNING: File damage to Finale 26 when 27 DEMO is installed (Mac)
What problem? It was a deliberate change—that code didn’t generate itself and someone signed off on the release. Now it is being walked back. Since it was sprung unexpectedly and without explanatio...
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>Also, if this is intended, what happens at the end of the 30-day Demo period? You're left with 2 broken apps?< Really? You should know better than such nonsense. An expired demo breaks on its ow...
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- WARNING: File damage to Finale 26 when 27 DEMO is installed (Mac)
> Yes, a reinstall fixed it, but it should NOT have been necessary.< But that, like Ben's is an opinion. I haven't taken sides but I sort of agree with leaving it alone in the Demo—frankly, I don...
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- WARNING: File damage to Finale 26 when 27 DEMO is installed (Mac)
Like issues with installing 26 over 25 (how soon we forget)? This caused a lot of problems as any trip through the backlogs of this board will remind us. If you have Finale v25 on your computer, t...
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- WARNING: File damage to Finale 26 when 27 DEMO is installed (Mac)
Ah… I did not download the demo. Knowing I would be upgrading anyway, I went straight to purchase. $ISDEMO = 1; But it fails to test that for the deletion bit. So what? You wrote the followi...
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- Finale - Problems & Questions
- WARNING: File damage to Finale 26 when 27 DEMO is installed (Mac)
>And of course, it doesn't check whether it's running the Demo before deleting these files. < You make that sound like a bad thing. If 27 is to be fully functional in demo mode, it all looks righ...
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>Anybody else suffering through this?< This is a long standing issue — we're talking decades. >press ctrl + [number], and that does work, but it's hardly a fix.< No, it's a workaround. A fix ...
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Mac Updater? Yea right. You did not post a version number that anyone could think to be an update.
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You've given us no information that would lead anyone to recommend or discourage it for you. Mr. Cox's non-answer notwithstanding, MikeR's advice to download it and check it out for yourself is the...
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Depending on your security settings, you probably need to add Finale as an approved app. Apple has support documents. Finale is not the only app that will have this issue. Had you run Mojave, you’d...