Altered something in the title and measures 6-8 are gone
I accidentally moved the text from the title of my piece (I was trying to highlight it to change the font). It moved up a bit, so was not interfering spacially with any musical content. When I 'dropped' the title text, intending to simply hit 'undo,' measures 6-8 of my piece disappeared. The measure numbers have remained, so measure 5 is followed by measure 9 now. I hit a bunch of undo's, no dice. Seems like a glitch. I would rather not revert to my last saved version because I did some work on this since I last saved it, but I suppose that might be my only option. Any suggestions or experience with this?
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It would be helpful if you would also attache the score you've trouble with.
The only thing I can think of that would explain this is that you have "Hide empty staves" enabled, and the change you made caused one whole system to become empty and thus be hidden. But as mentioned, in order to do more than guess, we'd need you to attach your score.
Okay, to explain: this is a song I wrote to help tiny violin students with bow exercises- that's why it is a pretty dumb song, (and wheels on the bus rip-off). I want to eventually put little pictures in the spaces created by the horizontal frames. After my previous post, I ended up just reverting to an earlier saved version and redoing my work... but then it happened again. This time the precipitating edit was I accidentally deleted a note that I didn't want to delete. I went to edit -> undo (just once) and suddenly a bunch of measures disappeared. Tried undoing several steps of edits- nothing will return those measures. Pretty sure this is a glitch, since deleting and un-deleting a note should not have drastic effects on spacing...or the basic existence of measures 6-8 and 16-18. What is my best course of action? I will certainly make sure to save very frequently in the future. Thank you for your help!
In reply to Okay, to explain: this is a… by Stefni
Is there currently anything wrong with the file you just uploaded?
When you said you accidentally deleted a note and undid it how did you delete it? Exact steps. such as I clicked the note and pressed delete. or I select the note before then pressed the right arrow and right clicked the note and chose delete. There are many options.
I see this is made with 2.0.3.1. I don't remember if there is a bug that was fixed in 2.1 that will fix this.
In reply to Okay, to explain: this is a… by Stefni
As mentioned above, there doesn't appear to be anything obviously wrong the file you uploaded. Can you describe the problem in more detail - exact steps to reproduce it? Measures 6-8 seem just fine here, and I can't find any sequence of steps that changes that.
Obviously, undoing a note delete shouldn't remove measures, and I've never seen this happen in the many years I've used MuseScore on practically a daily basis. My guess is it will turn out to be a simple misunderstanding - like "Hide empty staves" kicking in, or maybe things getting pushed to the next page or whatever.
In reply to Okay, to explain: this is a… by Stefni
I didn't find anything strange.
PS: I've apply what you say, in many measures: delete a note, undo; move title text, undo etc...
Yes, that is strange. When I clicked on the link I uploaded to you all, it looks normal again. I don't know what went wrong in my program but I will update the software. To clarify: I clicked on a note and hit delete, then went to the 'Edit' drop-down menu and selected 'undo' and when I did that measures 6-8 and 16- 18 disappeared. The remaining measures were not renumbered but they were stretched to fill the lines/ empty spaces left by the missing measures. Thank you all for your suggestions. I'm glad it works... for now :) and hope an update might help.
In reply to Yes, that is strange. When I… by Stefni
Given that I've never heard any other report of this, I'm still guessing whatever happened was a simple misunderstanding. It could potentially be the result of some sort of corruption in your score, but if so, that corruption appears to be fixed now. In any case, I rather doubt you'll see this again, but if you do, please report back and incldue the score and precise steps to reproduce the problem.