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You could, but there are two issues with that off the top of my head: Most importantly, you would have to reboot into that drive to use Finale. At least with a VM you can run it in parallel with y...
Sorry if some of us are rocking your world, JAV, but I don't think it's abnormal to take time to come to terms with what is a pretty disruptive and sudden announcement yesterday. Not all of us have...
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.