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On Nov 18, 2024 at 7:56:32 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> Nov 18, 2024 at 6:42:55 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> . . . 
> 
>>>> I had resigned myself that something like this would happen
>>>> eventually. The computer was a dinosaur, after all, so all I really
>>>> want are those files. I bought a hard drive dock off Amazon for $25
>>>> and I'm going to open up the old machine and remove the drive and put
>>>> it into this dock and plug it into my more modern Mac with the hope
>>>> that it will mount as an external non-system disk which will bypass
>>>> the corrupted system file and I can pull all those data files off it
>>>> without having to redo them all.
> 
>>> Can you run Virtual Box as a way to run the old operating system you
>>> need for the engraving application?
> 
>> Possibly, but it's easier just to migrate to Finale 25. It runs on the
>> new machine. The only reason I resisted for so long is that the parent
>> company--MakeMusic-- completely revamped the entire interface for Finale
>> after the 2014 release. All the functions are in different menus and are
>> applied in different ways. Some of it is an improvement, other changes are
>> like, WTF? Why did they do that? I now have to navigate three sub-menus
>> to do things I was doing with a single keystroke in 2009 version.
> 
>> After using it for a month now, I'm getting the hang of it to the point where
>> I'm almost as efficient as I was with the old version.
> 
>> Of course, as per the laws of the universe, just as I'm learning this
>> upgrade,
>> MakeMusic has announced they're discontinuing Finale altogether:
> 
>>
>> https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-dorico-letter-from-president/
> 
>> The End of Finale
> 
> Ouch
> 
> At least they resisted the obvious pun.
> 
> I hope you'll be able to continue your work.

Well, I took their offer and downloaded the Dorico cross-grade. I'm leery of
it, however. It's still relatively new, so I don't know how robust it is in
terms of being able to do the advanced non-traditional notation that's
frequently found in film music. You may be able to produce a beautiful Chopin
etude but can it do 'Sub-Level 3' from ALIENS:

https://ibb.co/PWmQR8f

Not sure.

It also supposedly upends the entire paradigm of music notation software
interface. There are oodles of YouTube tutorials but having to re-learn
something so complicated from the ground up does not fill me with enthusiasm.
The company I do this work for has already emailed me telling me to hold off
because Dorico files aren't compatible with their systems.