I am on a Mac. I just downloaded the Garritan GPO5 playback template and imported it (Play/Playback template…) and it was working fine. In a completely unrelated but very coincidental action, I deleted the folder users/shared/GIFF_Samples. Now, when I playback my piece that uses the GPO5, I get the …

[image] jcrandall010: . In a completely unrelated but very coincidental action, I deleted the folder users/shared/GIFF_Samples. The GIFF samples and instruments are installed as part of the Finale installer, not the GPO5 installer. Why the GPO5 playback template is trying to load the GIFF Pi…

Why indeed. And looking for a folder that no longer exists… even though the GPO5 is a newly downloaded and imported GPO5. Let me go through the my steps, which I’ve just repeated to no avail. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. I open my piece of music that wants to use the GPO5. It can’t find it. I …

Where did you download the template from? From here: [image] Playback Templates for Dorico – Dorico Playback templates (containing endpoint setups, expression maps and percussion maps) are available for various sample libraries. Below is a list of the options currently available, inclu…

[image] jcrandall010: The /Users/Shared/GIFF_Samples/ folder doesn’t exist. Did you check in the Finder that the folder exists? Does it? Maybe there is a misunderstanding. The playback template does not install any instrument samples.

I got the template from Benwiggy’s first link, but it worked the other day when I first used that link. The problem is that I mistakenly deleted the users/shared/GIFF_Samples/ folder that Dorico is wanting to look into. Finder shows that it does not exist (and I emptied my trash where it had gone to…

As the folder doesn’t exist and as Ben mentioned in his first response you have to (re)install the GIFF samples from the Finale installer. Apparently you don’t have the Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 library, but the playback template is supposed to work with Garritan Instruments for Finale (GIFF) a…

Please share any file using the template, with Piccolo, Glockenspiel, and any other problem instruments loaded. [image] Vadian: Apparently you don’t have the Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 library, but the playback template is supposed to work with Garritan Instruments for Finale (GIFF) as well,…

This may be the problem. Somehow, I was able to playback using the playback template from Dorico that I had downloaded yesterday (or the day before). But, I believe what I have is Garritan Instruments for Finale. I was just conflating that with GPO5. When I open and try to playback the file I had c…

27 Edolution mov#2 (3L,4S).dorico (1.5 MB) This should be the file as I had left it the other day prior to my having deleted that one folder.

[image] benwiggy: Please don’t guess! Sorry, I educationally guessed by the screenshot – which refers to GIFF – and the statement “it was working fine” in the origin post.

Dorico not finding GPO5 playback template

Dorico

benwiggy July 26, 2025, 8:05pm 4

Where did you download the template from?

From here:

… or from here:

Can you upload a document, with the Piccolo and the Glockenspiel, after you’ve applied the template?