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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:

Generated by the application and placed in the user-specific location (red)
Installed to the common location, then transferred to the user-specific location when Finale is launched while logged-in to that specific account (green), or
Installed to the common location, then transferred to the user-specific location as needed. Files in the Configuration Files folder are copied individually as needed (blue). All other subfolders are transferred in their entirety (provided the subfolder does not already exist in the user-specific location, and the user has not modified Program Options-Folders)...
- Default Files folder, after selecting File menu > New > Default Document
- Document Styles folder, after launching the Setup Wizard
- Font Annotation folder, when opening any file
- Libraries folder, when selecting File > Load Library.
- Templates folder, when selecting File > New > Document from Template

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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