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Finale Installation Details

To accommodate the autonomy of each of a computer's multiple users, and to prevent permissions issues, Finale installs its components to various locations on your hard drive depending on their function and required accessibility.

Because there may be multiple user accounts on the same computer, Finale installs all customizable files (i.e. files that each user may want to edit individually) to a "common" folder: (XP: Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/MakeMusic/Finale 2012, Vista/Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\MakeMusic\Finale2012). When Finale is launched while logged-in to a user-specific account, files are copied from this "common" location to a new, user-specific location for that account (XP: Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data/MakeMusic/Finale 2012, Vista/Windows 7: Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/MakeMusic/Finale 2012).

The following table lists the locations of the various installed files, and whether they are:

XP: Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MakeMusic\Finale 2012 (Common)

Vista/Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\MakeMusic\Finale2012 (Common)

XP: Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data/MakeMusic/Finale 2012 (User-specific)

Vista/Windows 7: Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/MakeMusic/Finale 2012 (User-specific)

Contents (files/folders)

 

FINALE.INI

FINMIDI.INI

Configuration Files

ensembles.txt

instrument.txt

keymaps.txt

MacSymbolFonts.txt

pagesizes.txt

PercMapConversionTable.txt

VST Support

FinaleVST_Ignore.txt

FinaleVST_Loadcrumb.txt

FinaleVST_Validated.txt

GIF2010instrument.txt

Instruments for Finale VST_x86.dll

softsynth_vst.dll

TapSpaceinstrument2k10.txt

FinaleScript

[FinaleScript Files]

MIDI Device Annotation

Garritan Instruments for Finale.xml

General MIDI.xml

SmartMusic SoftSynth.xml

Tapspace Drumline for Finale.xml

Font Annotation

.FAN files (See Font Annotation)

Libraries

[Finale Libraries]

Music Files

Default Files

Document Styles

Exercises

Sample Files

Templates

Tutorials

Worksheets

 

The following lists the contents of the Finale 2012 program folder after a full installation.

Program Files\Finale 2012

Contents (files/folders)

 

Default.har

Finale 2012 Read Me

Finale.exe

finres32.dll

msvcr71.dll

uninstallFinale.exe

UT.dll

Audio Support

AIOLib.dll

finmidi.dll

IRCAMlib.dll

synthgms.sfg

Data

Dealers_Fin.txt

location.txt

privpol.txt

smpsoloinst.txt

TIPS.txt

Help Files

[User Manual Files]

Music Files

Default Files

Document Styles

Exercises

Sample Files

Templates

Tutorials

Worksheets

Plug-ins

[Plug-ins that appear in the Plug-ins menu]

Plug-in Components

Drum Groove

DTD

Java

Latin Percussion

Dolet-light-license.doc

gearpd.dll

HP.dll

MusicXML.dll

ScoreMerger.dll

SmartMusicMarkers.dll

SMPCheck.dll

SSLite.dll

TextSearchReplace.dll

Resources

Backgrounds

Handles

Manuscript Textures

Palettes

PercNoteTypes.txt

 

 

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