my song changed key
I don't know what happened. I've been working on a piece and when i opened it today to make some changes, my song had changed key...it went from three sharps to 2 flats. I can't imagine what happened. anyway, i tried to change the key sig and that didn't work. then i looked up your instructions for transposing a song and that just put a lot of double sharps and other accidentals in the piece.
i don't know what to do. i was supposed to take it to my group tonight and i can't without the changes. its so long, the idea of starting over really makes me sick because it will take so long. does anyone have any idea what happened and how i fix it? thanks for your help.
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Sounds like you pressed the F2 key which will have transposed it up a semitone. Press [Shift]F2 to reverse. But, since you've possibly made it worse, post the score and see if someone can help you out
In reply to Sounds like you pressed the by underquark
Agreed it's likely he hit F2 in error at some point. The problem is that if he uses SHIFT+F2 (or any other method) to transpose it back down a half-step, the program will respell many of the accidentals and he'll have to go through it note by note to find and correct those.
If he had not closed the file and re-opened it, he would have been able to use CTL+Z to undo the changes completely, but that won't work in this case. The only other alternative I can think of is for him to find the autosaved backup copy using Windows Explorer or the Library or the equivalent directory for his particular OS. (You can't even see .mscz, files if you search by using from MuseScore.) Once he's done that, he can remove the comma from the end of the file extension, SAVE AS under a new name, and open that (all the while hoping the backup was autosaved before he hit F2).
thanks for your help. yeah, I didn't mean to shut musescore down but my machine restarted while I was away. then when I opened it, it was all changed. I searched but didn't find a backup other than the most recent, which was a backup of the one with the problem. I appreciate your help. I will have to fix it manually. thanks again.