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SongWriter Installation Details

To accommodate the autonomy of each of a computer's multiple users, and to prevent permissions issues, SongWriter 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, SongWriter 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 SongWriter 2012, Vista/Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\MakeMusic\Finale SongWriter 2012). When SongWriter 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 SongWriter 2012, Vista/Windows 7: Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/MakeMusic/Finale SongWriter 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 SongWriter 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 > 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 SongWriter 2012 (Common) Vista/Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\MakeMusic\Finale SongWriter 2012 (Common) XP: Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data/MakeMusic/Finale SongWriter 2012 (User-specific) Vista/Windows 7: Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/MakeMusic/Finale SongWriter 2012 (User-specific)	Contents (files/folders)
	FINALE.INI FINMIDI.INI SongWriterRes.dll License.rtf SongWriter 2012 Read Me
Configuration Files	keymaps.txt MacSymbolFonts.txt pagesizes.txt PercMapConversionTable.txt
VST Support	softsynth_vst.dll
MIDI Device Annotation	General MIDI.xml SmartMusic SoftSynth.xml
MIDI Device Annotation	General MIDI.xml SmartMusic SoftSynth.xml
Font Annotation	.FAN files
Library	SongWriter Libraries
Music Files	Document Styles Templates Default Files SongWriter Tutorials Repertoire

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

Program Files\Finale SongWriter 2012	Contents (files/folders)
	Finale SongWriter 2012 Read Me Finale SongWriter.exe Help Files PrintMusRes.dll PMLicense.rtf Resources icudt36.dll icuuc36.dll msvcr71.dll uninstallPM.exe gearpd.dll HP.dat
Audio Support	AIOLib.dll finmidi.dll synthgms.sfg
Data	Dealers_Fin.txt location.txt Percussion Layouts.lib privpol.txt TIPS.txt
Help Files	[User Manual Files]
Music Files	Default Files Tutorials
Plug-in Components	DTD Java Dolet-light-license.doc HP.dll MusicXML.dll BIABAutoHarmonizingLE.dll CreateCodaSystem.dll Drum Groove DrumGrooveLE.dll SSLite.dll systemdivider.dll
Resources	PercNoteTypes.txt Paettes Backgrounds Manuscript Textures

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