Finding Templates
Have finally gotten to a point where I can download 2.0, and give it a spin. So far I have been very pleased - I was afraid there would be a large learning curve with the new release like there is with so many software packages, but not with MuseScore 2.0. To all the staff on the development team - WELL DONE!!! Change for the sake of change is never a good idea.
I do have one area that has caused some frustration with me though - the area of templates. I had created a few with 1.3, and went to find them, but they were no where to be seen outside of MuseScore. They show up when I create a new score just fine, but I'd like to move them forward if possible. I looked for them under Windows 7, and I can't find them. Since they still exist under 1.3, and I get clues from the open process, I know that they are in MuseScore>Templates, but have a locked symbol. They don't show up with WIndows Explorer. My Windows skills aren't what they used to be - is there a way to unlock them, view them, and move them to a MuseScore 2.0 templates folder?
I also see that there are multiple folders for 2.0 templates. Can one add a folder to this hierarchy and have it display when opening a new file from templates?
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
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For 1.3, templates were laoded from one place only - MuseScore's own template folder, under C:\Program Files\MuseScore or whatever it is installed. This is very bad - makes it difficult and even dangerous to add new templates, So in 2.0, MuseScore looks in two different places: it's own template folder, plus the templates folder in your own MuseScore folder (My Documents/MuseScore2/Templates, probably).
So all you need to do is copy the tmeplates from where they are now to your new templates folder. the locked symbol probably indicates that they are in a read-only folder, which is why it was a bad idea to require them to be there in 1.3. But that shouldn't prevent you from copying them elsewhere.
FWIW, though, you might consider regenerating these. Enough things have changed since 1.3 that scores built from 1.3 might have some less-than-optimum settings.
In reply to For 1.3, templates were by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the info. Is there a place where the templates directory is specified? Most Windows 7 directories like this are in the user directory, but I have never used that one - I prefer to have the My Documents directory under the root, as you gave in the example you cited.
FWIW - I found an empty templates folder in the c:\Users\user id\my documents\MuseScore 2\templates. I have been using Windows since version 3.0, and if there is one thing I have learned it is MS will change it for the next release. Change for the sake of change.....
Thanks.
Jerry
In reply to Thanks for the info. Is by tbdbitl
All of the folders used by MuseScore are specified in Edit / Preferences.
Not sure what you mean about change for the sake of change here. 1.3 could only find templates in a read-only folder that required administator privileges to write to and even then would oftne not work correctly due to how Windows manages these folders. So of course MuseScore needed to add a folder in user space. Are you implying this is somehow a bad thing? Or that you are anticipating that eventually a MuseScore 3 will come out and then the folder will be .../MuseScore 3/...? That may well be, but we'd only be likely to change the major version number to "3" for a really significant change that really *should* cause you to re-evaluate your templates. Just as it the case going from 1.3 to 2.0. So many huge under the hood changes happened, you can still use old 1.3 templates, but the results won't be optimal. These are *improvements*, not "change for the sake of change". See, for instance, http://musescore.org/en/node/25102
Please let me clarify - when I was saying "change for the sake of change" here, I was referring to Microsoft, and their habit of changing directory structure every time a new release comes out. I am in complete agreement that Muse 2.0 Templates is an improvement over the previous release.
Sorry for the confusion. Keep up the great work.
Jerry
In reply to Please let me clarify - when by tbdbitl
Tricky because users use MS to mean MuseScore, too. ;-)