Changes to measure affects subsequent measures
I'm trying to add something to a musescore file, and attempting to change the duration of a note in an earlier measure changes things in later measures (deleting notes and shifting them a bit). Changing the highlighted note to an eighth note (which should insert rests after it in the measure):
...is affecting later measures. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way of avoiding this? Perhaps a way of locking later measures?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Please post the score here so it can be looked at.
From your description, I think MuseScore should be doing what you expect it would. Perhaps the file has a corruption.
In reply to Please post the score here so by jim.weisgram
The file is indeed corrupted; it's giving me an error message when I open it, that measure 9 has a different number of notes than expected.
I hit "ignore" and the measure in question *is* missing an 8th note at the beginning of the measure, with no rest mark in its place but it plays as if there were. Trying to zoom in more crashed musescore. Opening again and clicking "cancel" in this dialog also crashes musescore.
> Please post the score here so it can be looked at.
Sure, how do I do that?
In reply to The file is indeed corrupted; by neilfein
See https://musescore.org/en/node/54721
In reply to The file is indeed corrupted; by neilfein
Sure, how do I do that?
When you are posting, scroll to the bottom past all the advice about web tags and formatting and you will see a >File Attachments option.
it's giving me an error message when I open it, that measure 9 has a different number of notes than expected.
That is a common corruption. I created a number of these when using version(s) 1.x and they became apparent in version(s) 2.0.x
There is a "howto" with methods to fix this type of corruption at https://musescore.org/en/node/54721
In reply to Sure, how do I do that? When by jim.weisgram
Thanks, unfortunately the file is now crashing Musescore as it opens. I tried clicking "ignore" in the dialog box as step 1 of these instructions indicates but then the application just crashed. :(
The Imperial March for low-G uke.mscz
In reply to Thanks, unfortunately the by neilfein
Are you on 2.0.3? Opens successfully for me after ignoring the corruption. Crashes when you try to select measure 9, however. Best I could manage at that point was to select the whole range from measures 8-10 then completely delete them (Ctrl+Delete).
In reply to Are you on 2.0.3? Opens by Marc Sabatella
I got the same crash.
Since a .MSCZ file is just a zip file, and the actual score data is held within as an .MSCX, I opened that file with a text editor. I made a change to measure 9, removing a "tick" element just because it seemed out of place.
Then I was able to open the MSCX file and fiddle with it with MuseScore. Now MuseScore reports no errors for me. Beat 1 of measure 9 has a note that I filled in, but no chord.
In reply to I got the same crash. Since a by jim.weisgram
Thanks! I have the file, and will remember this trick for the future.
In reply to Are you on 2.0.3? Opens by Marc Sabatella
I'm using the file jim.weisgram sent me below, but I was on 2.0; have now updated to 2.0.3, thanks.