Installation for Macintosh

Windows users: see the previous chapter Installation for Windows or skip over this chapter.

If you are viewing this on-screen, you have likely already installed Finale. Skip to Preparing for Printing.

Installing Finale onto your hard disk is easy, whether you’re upgrading from a previous version or working with Finale for the first time.

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 2010” 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 2010.” 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 2010 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 2010 takes a moment to convert it into the new format, then opens it as an “Untitled” file. If you save the file in Finale 2010 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 2010” for the Finale program and its associated files and folders.

Finale 2010 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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