What am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to save a score as a template.
I create the score with the layout and style settings I want and go to 'save as'. I select the Musescore Templates directory as the destination and save. I then go to the Musescore templates directory to check that my saved score is there, and it is.
However, when I go to 'new' and 'create score form template' my saved score does not appear in the list of templates available. I've tried saving my score in both .mscz and .mscx formats and they don't show in the available templates list in either case, despite the fact that both the .mscx and .mscz scores are in the templates directory when I check there.
What am I doing wrong?
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I don't know, but you have company. I've had the exact same thing happen, and/or the converse where a template appears in the list in MuseScore but the file itself is not there when viewed in Windows Explorer. I never really figured it out, but it seems there is probably some sort of caching going on, maybe within Qt (the (the library that handles the UI and file acces in MuseScore). It sometimes goes away after a reboot. See this:
http://musescore.org/en/node/9013
In reply to I don't know, but you have by Marc Sabatella
Ah right, so there's a known problem with saving and/or using your own tamplate. In that case I guess I'll just call it 'Template' and save it as normal in my 'My Tunes' folder and load it from there instead. Not rocket science really !
Thanks for your reply.
In reply to Ah right, so there's a known by Peter B
The advantage, though, of having it as a "real" template is that works with the new score wizard that lets you select time signature, key signature, pickup measure length, etc. So my advice would be to try removing it from the templates folder, then shitting down,MuseScore, then copying the template back in, then rebooting, and trying again to access it from the wizard again. You've got your workaround for now, so this can wait until the next time you were planning on rebooting anyhow. But there's a decent chance what I'm suggesting will work. Whatever the bug is, it doesn't seem to affect everyone, nor does it affect me all the time. So I have successfully installed templates.
In reply to The advantage, though, of by Marc Sabatella
nice Freudian typo ;-)
In reply to nice Freudian typo ;-) by Jojo-Schmitz
Easyway to tell when I'm postingfrom my iPad - way more typos than normal. And yes, this is an example.
In reply to Easyway to tell when I'm by Marc Sabatella
I had another theory.
:-)
In reply to The advantage, though, of by Marc Sabatella
Done that and no difference, but I'm not sure I understood your advice, this is what I did: with musescore running, brought up the templates folder using my computer>musescore>templates, draged the template file out of the templates folder to my desktop and shut down musescore. The using my computer>musescore>templates again, dragged the file back into the templates folder and rebooted, fired up musescore and went new>new score from template, and it wasn't there. Is this the procedure you meant?
I'm not so bothered about accessing the wizard facilites as the style and layout parameters. I change around 5 of the deault general style parameters for every one of my scores, and I like particular page layout parameters for every score too, and changing these every time I start a new score is tedious to say the least.
In reply to Done that and no difference, by Peter B
Yep, that's what I meant - assuming that when you drag to the desktop, it actually shows as being gone from the templates folder. I've dpne it by copying the file elsewhere then deleting it from templates, as opposed to using drag & drop. Doesn't seem like that should matter, but then, it doesn't seem possible that this would be happening, either.
Anyhow, you may find at some point the template magically appears. But meanwhile, just opening your template from a regular folder and doing save as to make copies will allow you to Not have to change your style parameters every time. BTW, you can also save a style file (style->save style) that and load that into a new document any time you want. This doesn't save your Layout settings, I don't think, but it does the Style settings. And the default paper size and scale, at least, can be set globally with Edit->Preferences. So it ends up being just margins that you'd have to override manually, I think. But I've seen this same glitch happen in the default styles folder, too, so you might have trouble seeing your saved style just as you are with the template. Luckily, though, styles can be loaded from anywhere, unlike templates.