Corrupted Measures

• Jul 17, 2023 - 17:48

I was emailing support, but was told to come here. I will copy and paste was I sent to support.
This is the error message:
Incomplete measure: Part score: Guitars + Pianos+ Organs, measure 15, staff 5. Found: 0/1. Expected: 4/4.
Incomplete measure: Part score: Guitars + Pianos+ Organs, measure 22, staff 4. Found: 0/1. Expected: 4/4.

So, to recap, Musescore is telling me that I my measures are corrupted, however, the measures look exactly as they should with no missing beats and music in them.

I also want to include that the part score in question was deleted and no longer exists. I can’t open that part score to fix that because it is doesn’t exist. I imported my score into Sibelius and it worked perfectly. I’m trying to understand this problem in Musescore

I deleted an entirely perfect instrument part in hopes of fixing the issue when there was nothing wrong with the music in that instrument.

Any help is appreciate. I think I saw someone had a similar issue, but I lost the link to that forum entry. Again any help is appreciated. I just started having this issue in the past month, but I have uploaded this score before with no issues. I need the updated version for a college transfer portfolio.


Comments

In reply to by missacacia

I extracted the mscz file with a zip tool and MuS 3.6.2 opened the included mscx file without any problems.
And yes, in the part 'Guitars + Pianos+ Organs' there are two empty measures - the have not even a rest! That is the problem.
You have created several combinations of parts, maybe there have been problems in the connection between the parts and the score.

I suggest

  • reset your parts or
  • delete this Guitars + Pianos+ Organs part and create it again or
  • extract the mscx and open this file. You will probably have to recreate the parts.

You wrote:
...however, the measures look exactly as they should with no missing beats and music in them.

Using MuseScore 4...
If you click on the Parts button in the toolbar and select the Guitars + Pianos+ Organs in the Parts dialog then click 'Open selected' you will see a completely empty measure (not even a rest shown) for measure 15 (Guitar). The same holds for measure 22 (El. Guit.).
Back in the Parts dialog, you can click on the ellipsis (three dots) to the right of the name (Guitars + Pianos+ Organs) and click on 'Reset' to fix.

Here's your (fixed) score:
Funeral of the Sun Dupe-2.mscz

In reply to by HildeK

Greetings HildeK...
Your file opens okay for me in MuS 4.1 and, as you say, the Guitars + Pianos+ Organs part is missing.
I was able to re-create that custom part with no problem. The score even survived saving and re-opening.

Of course, using the 'Reset' option in the Parts dialog of MuS 4 is the easy way. That option must have been a recent addition as it does not appear in the handbook image seen here:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/parts#renaming-duplicating-and-dele…
It is now one of the options available when the ellipsis (three dots) is clicked.

In reply to by Jm6stringer

Thank you very much for your efforts, Jm6stringer! Many greetings back!

I can't use version 4 because I'm still working old-school on Win7 :-).
But the hint about resetting extracts I have read in various posts for a while. I guess the manual is also still in progress and not quite complete.
By the way this was the reason for the corruption:
Corrupt measures.png

In reply to by Jm6stringer

Thank you for fixing it for me and telling me this. I had no idea I could reset the part scores! I don't know how everyone else was able to see the missing beats in the corrupted measures. It literally never appeared for me. Even when bringing it into Sibelius, it had no issues at all. But again thanks this helps so much!

In reply to by missacacia

The missing beats - correctly: the completly missing measure content - in the damaged measures were only in this one excerpt. In the main score they are correct and so there was a difference between the two. This is what caused the error message.

> I don't know how everyone else was able to see the missing beats
Not everyone else but some of us :-).
The error was not present in the main score, but only in this part.
Your error message indicated where the error can be found. I opened this file from the excerpts folder and found it.

In reply to by oMrSmith

Judging by the numbers, corruption is far less common of a problem with MU4 than any previous version of MuseScore. The improved detection is paying off so that many longstanding corruption problems that plagued previous versions are finally being fixed, and new corruption problems can be fixed almost immediately.

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