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Jake Willis
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  		   Posted 2/26/2006 6:31 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hello all - I am desperately trying to get a few of my finale files from my old iMac to my new PC. The PC won't open .mus files or midi files generated by F2000 on the Mac....

any suggestions?
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  		   Posted 2/26/2006 7:07 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
1) Don't use double click to open the files. Try launching Finale on the PC first and use the File menu, open.
2) Make sure all the files have been saved with the .mus suffix.
Normally, file formats are compatible between Macs and PCs for a few years now, but I don't know about 2000 mac files.
If you don't succeed, find somenone with a more recent Mac version of Finale, ask him to open and re-save the files in the new MAC version.
Use suggestions 1 and 2 and they should normally open in the PC version.

Michel
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  		   Posted 2/26/2006 9:05 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks for your help. No luck getting it to work so far.


Since #1 and #2 have not worked, can anyone help me update this so I can work on it in 2006 on PC?

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  		   Posted 2/26/2006 9:18 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
File Attachment :
fitesong.mus 276KB (application/x-macbinary)

I have a feeling that is the problem-----^

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  		   Posted 2/27/2006 5:27 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Try saving in ETF-format on your Mac first, then try opening the file under Windows. ETF should work better for conversions than MUS (own experience).
Good luck.

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  		   Posted 2/27/2006 3:56 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I couldn't open the file in Finale 2005b mac. Error ID # 12...

Michel
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  		   Posted 2/27/2006 4:00 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
OK, I think I am one step further. The file was compressed (probably with Stuffit on the Mac). Wrong suffix, should have been .sit or sitx. I unstuffed with Stuffit and re-saved in 2005b (Mac). Here it is.

The solution could be : on the Mac, make sure you de-compress the files with Stuffit (Expander).
Save them with the .mus suffix.
open them in Finale PC

Michel
Finale 2005b on a MacG5 2x2,5 and MacOsX 10.3.9 French, Dolet 3.1.1(for Finale & Mac). 21' CRT + 19' LCD. Midi interface : MOTU Midi Express XT. Roland Sound Canvas SC88-vl. Printer : Xerox Laser Docuprint N2825 (A3)

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fitesong_2005.mus   69KB (application/octet-stream)
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  		   Posted 2/27/2006 4:19 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
That opened in both 2005 and 2006 for me.

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  		   Posted 2/28/2006 12:00 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
somehow all the woodwind and percussion parts disappeared...but a lot of it can be fixed by cut and paste.

I will try to de-compress the file and send it to myself again....than you so much for your help!

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  		   Posted 2/28/2006 1:12 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
OK - so now I feel like a total pest.

Somehow the file I uploaded was missing a significant amount of Data. michelp - is it possible that you could decompress this and re-post it? I tried everything I know to do it myself. My stuffit won't do a thing with it. I have tried saving it different ways, expanding it different ways.....I tried updating my stuffit expander. Nothing I do works. This is for a job i am trying to get so any help would be more than appreciated..

Thanks so much to anyone who can help

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  		   Posted 2/28/2006 2:20 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
OK here it is. I unstuffed the file, no problem. But strangely enough, my first try to save it as 2005 file produced a file with only 5 or 6 staves, the other ones were missing (and not hidden by a staff view ). I tried again, and it worked. Try this file and make sure after dowloading it, that it has a .mus suffix.

Michel
Finale 2005b on a MacG5 2x2,5 and MacOsX 10.3.9 French, Dolet 3.1.1(for Finale & Mac). 21' CRT + 19' LCD. Midi interface : MOTU Midi Express XT. Roland Sound Canvas SC88-vl. Printer : Xerox Laser Docuprint N2825 (A3)

Post Edited (michelp) : 2/28/2006 1:23:07 PM (GMT-6)



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  		   Posted 2/28/2006 4:10 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
AWESOME!!! I can't thank you enough. Everything worked great. Now to make it look perfect :)

THANK YOU!

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