'File corrupted'
Hi all,
'File corrupted. Bar 95, stave 2, voice 2 too long. Expected: 3/8; Found: 4/8' shows on opening.
Ignoring it works fine. Reasons to NOT ignore it are that it is 30 pages to be professionally published, so I'd like it as trouble free as possible. It's important.
To attempt a fix I've tried editing bar 95, even deleting it, so it was a new 'bar 95'. The error message persists.
Any suggestions?
Best regards, Alan Plummer
Comments
If there is a little + sign above that measure, that means there are too many beats in that measure. As a test delete voice two. Or at least look at why there is an extra 8th note. And the problem might not be just bar 95. Hard to tell without a small part of the score at bar 95. A pic at the very least.
In reply to If there is a little + sign… by bobjp
Thanks for the reply. Here’s a pic. No cross, no sign of a misprinted bar, that I can see. I am reasonably competent with MuseScore – but this stumps me.
Notes, voices and bars have been systematically deleted – that last meaning that there was a new bar 95 – yet the error message remains, now about a new alternate bar 95.
So it seems a ‘meta’ type problem, not my data entry. But I don't know.
Ideas? Alan.
In reply to Thanks for the reply. Here’s… by alan plummer
You'd need to share the score
But see also How to fix a score that contains corruptions
In reply to You'd need to share the score by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks - I'll read that
In reply to Thanks for the reply. Here’s… by alan plummer
What is the meter here? These measures do not add up with each other.
In reply to What is the meter here?… by bobjp
To me they do, 6/16 or 3/8?
In reply to What is the meter here?… by bobjp
Looks to be 3/8, as already mentioned in the error message.
![95.png]( "95.png")
The OP's picture shows:
Top staff with 6 sixteenth notes, so 3/8 time signature fits.
Bottom staff, voice 1 is a 5 note chord of dotted quarter notes, so 3/8 time signature fits.
Bottom staff, voice 2 (stems down) is a quarter note followed by an eighth, so 3/8 time signature fits.
In reply to Looks to be 3/8, as already… by Jm6stringer
That's right. Hence the problem
In reply to What is the meter here?… by bobjp
3/8 How do they not add up? Can you see something i can't?
In reply to 3/8 How do they not add up?… by alan plummer
Drat. Missed voice two. Slaps self. I hardly use voices.
Check the 'Status Bar' to confirm you are truly at bar 95:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/viewing-and-navigation#status-bar
Pickup measure(s) and section break(s) can alter the displayed (visual) numbering on the score.
Error messages, though, relate to the 'real' internal numbering within MuseScore, so each bar has its own number and no numbers can be skipped or duplicated. This 'real' number shows in the 'Status Bar'.
In reply to Check the 'Status Bar' to… by Jm6stringer
Understood - I really am looking at bar 95
In reply to Understood - I really am… by alan plummer
Please. Share. The. Score.
Thanks all - the problem and fix was described in 'fixing corrupted files'.
Thanks again.
In reply to Thanks all - the problem and… by alan plummer
Mind to tell use which of the various methods were successfull?
In reply to Mind to tell use which of… by Jojo-Schmitz
I think it was you suggested the link to the 'file corrupted' topic.
The cause of the problem was as described - an imported score from an old version of MuseScore. The faulty bar (not actually bar 95) could only be found through making multiple copies of the file - 30 pages of semiquavers - and progressively deleting slabs until the offending bar was revealed. The the bar could be deleted from a complete file and re-entered without problem recurring.
Thanks. Alan,
In reply to I think it was you suggested… by alan plummer
Yes, I did, but here I'm asking which of the methods descibed there helped.
So it was deleting and reentering the offending measures, good.
Quite often the far easier method of swapping voices twice helps too.