Installation for Macintosh

Installing Finale is usually easy and automatic, accomplished by following the directions displayed during the installation process. However, if you do have trouble installing, use the following procedure to resolve the most common installation problems.

Before you begin installing Finale, make sure there’s enough room on your hard disk to hold the program and its associated files. For a full installation, you’ll need about three hundred twenty-five megabytes (325,000K) of free space on your hard disk. An additional 1.6GB is required for all the Garritan sounds. You should also bear in mind that, like many other software programs, Finale creates and makes use of “temporary files” during its normal operations, which it then deletes from your hard disk when you exit the program. We recommend having an additional ten megabytes (10,000K) of free disk space for these files.

The Installer sets up a folder called “Finale 2012” for the Finale program and its associated files and folders. Do not alter this setup.

1. Insert the Finale disc into your CD/DVD drive. Its icon appears on your desktop.
2. Double-click the CD/DVD icon. The contents of the CD/DVD appear on your screen.
3. Double-click the Installer icon. You are prompted to enter your computer administrator’s password.
4. Enter your password and click OK. In a moment, the Finale Installer screen appears.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen until the installation is complete. The Finale Installer lets you select which files you want installed and where you want them placed on your hard disk. The Installer offers to create a folder called “Finale 2012.” We recommend that you install all of the Finale files into this new folder. For the most part, you can press Return to confirm the defaults.

Finale 2012 will not disturb an older Finale folder. You can copy any custom files and song files into the new Finale folders, then delete the previous Finale folder if you want to free up disk space.

When you open an older Finale family notation file (choose File, then Open and navigate to your older file), Finale 2012 takes a moment to convert it into the new format, then opens it as an “Untitled” file. If you save the file in Finale 2012 using the same name as before, you will not be able to reopen that file using an earlier version of Finale. It is suggested, therefore, that you save the file with a slightly different name (for instance, “My Score” could become “My Score 2”), unless you are sure that you won’t need to reopen the file in an earlier version of Finale.

The Installer sets up a folder called “Finale 2012” for the Finale program and its associated files and folders.

Finale 2012 will not disturb an older Finale folder. You can copy any custom files and song files into the new Finale folders, then delete the previous Finale folder if you want to free up disk space.

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