Palettes keep on resetting on MuseScore 4

• May 17, 2023 - 11:08

Hello, I'm having a simple problem that I can't seem to figure out. I arrange the "folders" in Palettes on the sidebar in an order that I'm more comfortable with. I put the elements I commonly use at the top so I can find them easier. But every time I restart musescore, or restart my computer (?), the order that I put them in goes back to what it used to be instead of the one I put them in.

Is there some kind of setting I'm missing the prevents this? It really slows down my workflow when I need to keep rearranging or finding the palette that I need.

Sorry if this has been asked before, I can't seem to find an answer through Google.

Thanks!

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• May 17, 2023 - 11:58

Sorry if my question was misunderstood. I did not create custom palettes. I only rearranged the palettes that were already in ms4 by default.

But to answer your question, I did not save any palette because I did not edit their contents nor did I create a new palette. I only changed the position of the default palettes in the list.

EDIT: In the handbook that was linked is a section called "Changing the order of the palettes". The handbook says to drag a palette up and down the list. My initial problem is related since the order that I put them in does not get saved upon exit.

Thanks for the reply!

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• May 17, 2023 - 14:11

Palettes once could be re-arranged and saved in what were formerly called advanced workspaces. This feature is (presently) gone in MuseScore 4.
See;
https://musescore.org/en/node/334701#Advanced_workspace

In MS4, a score is opened as a different instance of the program running in a separate window. With multiple scores opened, if the palette order gets changed in one, the change doesn't propagate into any other. (You can verify this yourself.) So, when MS4 gets shutdown, any (changed) palette order is not saved.
However...
Those separate windows do seem to "talk" to each other because 'recent scores' gets updated across all when a new score is opened, and 'clear recent files' also updates across the separate windows. So maybe someday changing the palette order will follow.

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• May 17, 2023 - 14:49

It is true that having multiple windows complicates things a bit, but it's not accurate that palettes can no longer be re-arranged or saved in workspaces. You can still create additional workspaces as before, but it remains completely optional. It is also true that there doesn't happen to be a pre-defined "advanced" workspace in MU4 but that's not at all relevant to the process of customizing palettes or palette order.

The thing you need to be careful about is if you customize a workspace (whether the default workspace or one you create yourself), you want to be sure it's the only open window when you do the customization, and then quit/restart to be sure your customizations are saved. Otherwise you have different windows with potentially different customizations fighting over whose will "win" next time you start.

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• May 17, 2023 - 16:56

Okay, so in addition to the re-ordering of the palettes themselves, there's this...

After re-arranging the order of icons in any individual palette, or even after creating a custom palette, this single score-window saving/closing technique works to maintain the changes.
So, what is the "Save palette" - accessed via the 3 dots - main function?

EDIT: Ah... to save, not for the score at hand, but to save a "copy" of the palette as an .mpal - to perhaps give to others to use for themselves.

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