Software tips?

[hautbois baryton]

So I finally upgraded (?) to Finale 26.2. Every time I get a new version of Finale I create an updated Document Style that contains all the fonts, shapes, settings, etc. that I prefer.

Does anyone have any tips on how to do this without laboriously checking every setting?

[John Ruggero]

TG Tools? I think this might be one for https://www.finaleforum.com/

[benwiggy]

Surely you just copy the old file to the new location? At worst, you save and load a Library containing all the relevant options.

[John Ruggero]

When I get a new version of Finale (which at the present rate of improvement, may never happen again) I go to User library>Application Support>MakeMusic>Finale (say 2012)>Music Files>Templates and make copies of the various templates that I have created containing all my settings. Then I move these copies to the new Template file that appears under: User library>Application Support>MakeMusic>Finale (26 or whatever they call it) >Music Files>Templates and all is well.

However, some experts at the Finale boards have suggested that making such copies can lead to problems over time, although I have never had any.

So if you want to create a brand new file or files from scratch and somehow migrate your old settings to it automatically, I have no idea how you would do that, although I have been using TG Tools to migrate my articulation metatools successfully and wonder if other settings might be possible that way.

[benwiggy]

However, some experts at the Finale boards have suggested that making such copies can lead to problems over time, although I have never had any.

If memory serves, that was true of the old .mus format, but is no longer the case. If you do want to copy settings to a new file, Libraries is the way to do it.

[John Ruggero]

That's reassuring, Ben. Thanks.