Changing a MS1.3 file into a 2.0.3
Act II. File $6 I really need to get a 1.3 file changed into a 2.0.3 file that will work for editing and then saving as a real 2.0,3 file. I have done this many times in my opera the Anasazi files, but I have not been able to get Act II. File #6 to save changes and save right as a usable 2.0.3 file l(for printing, etc.) The original 1.3 is fine, just needs some editing of lines etc. I would sooner edit these after it's a 2+ file. My opening the 1.3 with 2.0.3 and saving as a 2.03 file had big problems before, as was noted in another thread. So can anyone get this operation done right, so that it will be a usable file?
A problem already don't know what's going on I opened the 1.3 file, but it morphed into a 2.0.3 file in the attachment here! maybe you can't even upload a 1. 3 to the Forum??? So now you can't see my 1.3 file.
Thank You
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| ACT_II File #6 p_v_score_pg_183-___full_score_pg_304-AAAA6.mscz | 125.27 KB |
Comments
Files don't magically morph. If you save a file with 1.3, it is a 1.3 file. If you save it with 2.0.3 it is a 2.0.3 file. Either file can be uploaded to the forum. The file you attached here is a 1.3 file. Easiest way to tell: go to File / Score Properties.
If I understand correctly, the problem here is that an apparently-valid 1.3 file, once loaded into 2.0.3 and saved, is reported as corrupt when loading the 2.0.3 version. This has been known to happen with certain 1.3 files that were in fact already corrupt but it wasn't so apparent. Mostly, cases where there was a missing time signature somewhere.
And in fact, that is exactly what is going on here. Notice the first measure is missing a time signature. There was a bug in 1.3 that allowed you to delete the initial time signature but without automatically converting it to 4/4 internally, which is what it should have done. So your first measure has no time signature but actually contains only two beats. This is a corruption that 1.3 never noticed or reported, nor did 2.0.3 notice it originally, but it became a problem after saving and reloading.
Luckily, the fix is very simple. Just load the original 1.3 file and add the missing time signature back to that first measure. Looks like it is intended to be 2/4 (not that it matters much since it is empty), so I'd just add that. After adding it, now save it. The resulting 2.0.3 file should load just fine. It might seem strange that the missing time signature right at the beginning would cause so many problems further down the line (in measure 37), but that's how it is.
Check attachment.
Changes:
1. First Big "text frame" moved first page.
2. Added a Clef for Fr.Horn
3. Two (blank) measures deleted from beginning.
I hope this (2.0.3) file works.
In reply to Check attachment. by Ziya Mete Demircan
Hi, I will look at it and try. Thanks
In reply to Hi, I will look at it and by delhud2
Hi Ziya, Your version works! I am going to use it for my 2.0.4. file of this 1.3 file. Thank You very much. (Marc's operation would have worked also.)
In reply to Hi Ziya, Your version works! by delhud2
:D
ReplyIng to Marc Sabatella : Hallelujah! I knew there was something really weird about that file. i will try changing the time signature in 1.3 , etc.! I just checked my File 14, my very last file in this work that needs to be in 2.0.3 usable, and I did find some weird stuff concerning a missing time change signature that looked just like the stuff in File 7 (13 total), so I will try the same correction in 1.3 on it as well later.
In reply to ReplyIng to Marc Sabatella : by delhud2
Please see attachment. I opened and saved the last file Act II. File #7 1.3 and saved it as a 2.0.3 file. At first it worked OK (Putting in brackets,etc,. on the beginning page of the score) but now is not working. Don't know why. Also, MS keeps saying when you open it that it is corrupted, but that was fixed, on M 160, there is NO longer a 7/8 corruption of a 6/8 measure on the Soloist Soprano voice staff. i checked on score properties and MS says it IS a 2.0.3 file created today. The File is named Please see pg. 387 for an example. I made corrections on the timpani trills and other stuff and it never would save. I tried replacing the original file also, but it did not save changes. This file went wrong somewhere also, just like the File $6 recently.
P.S. There is no "weird stuff" about a time signature as I said in a previous post. (I deleted that file).
In reply to Please see attachment. I by delhud2
The file you attached is indeed corrupted. You might have fixed one corruption in this or a different file, but this corruption remains, so you need to fix that as well. As the message says, measure 161 contains an error, and it's plain enough to see when you load the score - the Soprano staff has only a single eighth rest in it. The usual trick of selecting the measure then exchanging voice 1 & 2 fixes it. Then you can delete the extra rest.
As for what else is "not working", we need more specific information about what exactly you are not happy with. But when you say you made changes and "it did no save", this again suggests you still are struggling with basic file management issues - keeping track of which file is which, perhaps because they are in different folders or who knows what - and not anything to do with MuseScore. i know I sound like a broken record on this, but truly, I think an hour spent with a local computer expert would save you *months* of further frustration (I note you have been fighting these same issues over and over for longer than that already).