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PrintMusic Installation Details

To accommodate the autonomy of each of a computer's multiple users, and to prevent permissions issues, Finale PrintMusic 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 PrintMusic installs all customizable files (i.e. files that each user may want to edit individually) to a "common" folder: (/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/PrintMusic 2014). When PrintMusic 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 (<Current User>/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/PrintMusic 2014XP: Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data/MakeMusic/Finale PrintMusic 2014, Vista/Windows 7: Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/MakeMusic/Finale PrintMusic 2014).

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 PrintMusic 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 Preferences-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

/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/PrintMusic 2014 (Common) <Current User>/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/PrintMusic 2014 (User-specific)	Contents (files/folders)
Audio Support	synthgms.sfg
Configuration Files	ensembles.txt instrument.txt keymaps.txt MacSymbolFonts.txt pagesizes.txt PercMapConversionTable.txt
MIDI Device Annotation	General MIDI.xml SmartMusic SoftSynth.xml
Data	Dealers_Fin.txt location.txt Percussion Layouts.lib privpol.txt
MIDI Device Annotation	General MIDI.xml SmartMusic SoftSynth.xml
Help Files	[User Manual Files]
Font Annotation	.FAN files
Music Files	Document Styles Templates Default Files Tutorials Repertoire
Plug-in Components	Dolet-light-license.doc
Resources	PercNoteTypes.txt Backgrounds Manuscript Textures

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