Editing produces an invalid bar
This is not the first time this has happened to me, and a couple of times I've had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch: I edit a note, and then suddenly I end up with a bar containing the wrong number of notes. In the attached file, you'll see I've added the 4/4 time sig on each line, hoping the program would right itself, but no. Bar 10 now has lost two notes and I can't reinsert them because there is only room for three in that bar.
I think this usually happens when I juggle (fight) with the size of rests, but I'm not sure.
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It's better to attach the actual score rather than a picture. A picture allows no access to any relevant score settings/properties which may cause this to happen.
Anyway... you might want to compare the 'Nominal' and 'Actual' durations in Measure Preoperties.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-operations#properties
and look for 'Measure Duration'.
OK, I'll try to send the actual score - 1) I didn't know it was possible 2) I thought the file would be to big, but here goes:
In reply to OK, I'll try to send the… by rhban
I should have added: my first thought was to delete the offending bar and then insert a new one, but when I delete it, the next bar along goes wrong.
In reply to OK, I'll try to send the… by rhban
That score doesn't match the image you posted earlier, here measure 10 is complete and contains 4 beats.
All those additional 4/4 time sigs are not needed at all though
In reply to That score doesn't match the… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, I didn't notice - it must have changed when I saved. Anyway, I think I have been given enough help with the pointer to Measure Duration. A great deal of my problem, the cause of my need to edit, was because I forgot to state I wanted an anacrusis at the beginning. In addition, I didn't know how to create an anacrusis except at the very beginning, so I think I'm now on the way to working it all out.
I'm only copying out this piece from a handwritten manuscript so I can transpose it accurately!
I had a similar problem a couple of times when I deleted a triplet. Deleting just left a blank space, but I could not insert a new note where the triplet had been, and there weren't enough notes to complete the measure. Unfortunately, I can't attach an example because I just inserted a blank measure, wrote the notes that I wanted in it, and deleted the defective measure.