Finale is a great notation program. After doing lot of work only by hand I start using plugins. Finale ships a lot of them (and you could purchase more or develop your own …). Now you have many of them, but use only a selection of them on a regular basis.
For easier overview Finale provides a favorite folder. How to get your favorites into that?
All plugins are stored on disk in your FINALE_HOME\Plug-Ins directory. There is also a favorite folder (in German „Bevorzugte Plug-Ins“). All you have to do is copy your required plugin into that folder.
Stop! – copy?
Maybe a copy would break your license (multiple installations), but basically a copy has to drawbacks: increased amount of disk space and hard to update (always update ALL copies).
So use LINKS for that 🙂
On windows navigate to your favorite-plugin-directory and create a link using „mklink TARGETNAME SOURCENAME“. For example on my german computer I’ll do
mklink CHKRNG32.FXT "..\Partitur und Arrangement\CHKRNG32.FXT"
for placing the „check range“-plugin.
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