Delete Measures Deleted!
Oddly, the new version of Musescore (alpha) seems to lack the ability to simply delete measures! This is a real show-stopper. The option used to be (if I remember correctly) in the Edit menu, but now it's gone :s And there seems to be no other way to delete measures... Edit/Delete only clears the content of the selected measure(s)- it doesn't actually delete the measure(s). Cut doesn't work either.
"Delete Measures" isn't where one might expect it: next to Add/Measures/insert. My suggestion would be to change the Add menu to Add/Delete and put it in there.
I'm using it on MacOS 10.12.6, and have never had any issues with Musescore before, but suddenly Musescore 2 stopped working for me, hence I tried alpha. looks good so far, but yeah... without "delete measures," it's pretty useless for editing and presentation :(
Thanks!
Keith
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Del always just emptied a measure, Ctrl+Del (Mac: Cmd+Del) removed it and still does. But indeed that function got removed from the Edit menu and also from the right-click context menu too, not sure why.
However: you should focus on getting MuseScore 2 working on your Mac again rather than replacing it with 3.0 Alpha. You should probably start with https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings#instructions-…
In reply to Del always just emptied a… by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo, I wish I could get musescore 2 to work again; so far no luck. It just stopped opening, out of the blue. No OS updates or anything on my end. I suppose it could be some openGL issue. Just haven't had time to dig deeper.
Thanks! I really appreciate the "ctrl" + "del" wisdom!
In reply to Jojo, I wish I could get… by Keith Williams
P.S. I did revert to factory settings, no luck. My guess something must've auto-updated with openGL. Odd.
In reply to P.S. I did revert to factory… by Keith Williams
Hmm, OpenGL? How come? We've just recently seen an issue on Windows with MuseScore 3.0 with OpenGL 2.0 not being supported on certaing graphics boards, workaround was to use ANGLE.
In reply to Del always just emptied a… by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo,
In the previous version CTRL + DEL allowed me to delete bars. In the current version, I no longer have that ability. It is frustrating. I've reached out to MUSESCORE and they've acknowledged receipt of my request for support but thus far have not provided me with anything. Are there any other work arounds other than CTRL + DEL to remove superfluous bars?
In reply to Jojo, In the previous… by yanivloran
As said else-thread: Ctrl+Del still works and the same as aver before, only that now you can even use on partial measures.
I've reached out to MUSESCORE and they've acknowledged receipt of my request for support
You have what?? There is no support (for the MuseScore program), other than here in the forum
In reply to As said else-thread: Ctrl… by Jojo-Schmitz
Control delete does absolutely not work for deleting measures on my Mac, it only deletes the content. The only workaround I can find is cutting and pasting everything else and moving it back two measures. I think I'm going back to Musescore 2.
In reply to Control delete does… by Nicole Krieger
Because it is cmd+del (or cmd+backspace?) on a Mac... again, same as in MuseScore 2.
In reply to Control delete does… by Nicole Krieger
And also, as explained elsewhere in this thread, it's still in the menu too, just under a different name: Tools / Remove Selected Range.
In reply to Del always just emptied a… by Jojo-Schmitz
I see this thread from several years ago. I am new to Musecore, working on a Windows 10 platform. I need to remove an empty measure. I followed your advice and tried deleting with Ctl+Del - which is the combo one would intuitively expect. You commented that "it still does" delete measures, but when I did this nothing at all happened. I explored the pull-down menus at the top, too, but find nothing to help there, either. (I agree with the suggestion of changing the "Add" link at the top to "Add/Delete." ) I'm stuck now! What do I do?
In reply to I see this thread from… by ballondr
Select the measure (blue rectangle is showing) and use "Tools > Remove Selected Range", which should also show you the default shortcut of Ctrl/Cmd+Del for it.
In reply to I see this thread from… by ballondr
There’s a known bug where if you accidentally hit the shortcut Ctrl+I (Cmd+I on macOS) anywhere other than while editing text, it places you in a weird undocumented mode that does nothing of value but has the side effect of disabling the “remove selected range” command. Serious. Try pressing that shortcut again and it may fix it. Or restart MuseScore.
cmd+del should still delete measures on a Mac.
I agree, removing this from the menus but keeping the insert options there does not make sense.
In reply to cmd+del should still delete… by mike320
There is no "Insert measure" in the Edit menu and never was.
In reply to There is no "Insert measure"… by Jojo-Schmitz
Insert measure was actually in the Add menu, I'll fix the suggestion.
In reply to cmd+del should still delete… by mike320
I put in a suggestion to restore deletes to the menus in version 3. #278051: Restore "Delete selected measures" options to menus.
In reply to I put in a suggestion to… by mike320
Thanks a bunch Mike! Very much appreciated!
In reply to Thanks a bunch Mike! Very… by Keith Williams
...and how do I give a tip to you or whomever does this? ;)
In reply to ...and how do I give a tip… by Keith Williams
"Virtual beer" ;-)
Or https://musescore.org/en/donate
P.S. Looks to me like the ability to share a file online has also gone away, in Musescore 3. That was a really nice feature :s
In reply to P.S. Looks to me like the… by Keith Williams
MuseScore.com does not yet have the ability to upload version 3 files. The internal formats are different.
In reply to P.S. Looks to me like the… by Keith Williams
It'll come back nearer to or at official release
FWIW, if you are limiting yourself to only the commands you can find in the menus, you're missing quite a lot of the functionality of MuseScore. Quite a few things are only available via keyboard shortcut or other means (Palette, Inspector, a setting in a dialog, etc). One very obvious example is entering a rest, which is most easily done with the keyboard shortcut "0", but then there are also all the commands to transpose notes up or down (Up/Down keys, also with Ctrl or with Alt+Shift), to navigate within the score, etc. Definitely worth spending some time with the documentation to learn more about what is available. This applies to both MuseScore 2 and the development builds of what will eventually become MuseScore 3.
Just a note that since MuseScore 3 is still not released yet, I concur with the advice to focus on getting MsueScore 2 working rather than relying on these development builds of MuseScore 3 completely. If revert to factory settings didn't work, you could try uninstall/reinstall, also check the Handbook under "Known incompatibilities".
To delete measures, go to tools and click remove empty/trailing measures.
In reply to To delete measures, go to… by psmallory
@psmallory, that will only get rid of measures at the end of the score. If you want to get rid of one in the middle of the score use ctrl+del or Tools->Timewise delete.
In reply to @psmallory, that will only… by mike320
Neither timewise delete nor ctrl delete is deleting my measures.
Pour les Français :
Musescore a supprimé la possibilité de supprimer des mesures !
Ca fait à peine 10 mn que j'utilise la version 3, et j'ai bien envie de retourner à la version 2 ...
Alors, grâce aux commentaires j'ai trouvé une ruse, il faut aller dans l'onglet "Outil" et cliquer sur "Supprimer les mesures restantes", mais ça ne marche que pour les mesures en trop à la fin du morceau.
Est-ce que c'est un bugg ?
Ou y a-t-il une rationalité qui m'échappe ?
In reply to Pour les Français :… by Kamehameha
Non ce n'est pas supprimé, la fonctionnalité existe toujours et est étendue, on peut aussi supprimer des parties de mesures maintenant.
-Le shortcut est toujours le même "ctrl <-del"
-Le nom de l'action est changé (Timewise delete) et cela se trouve dans un autre menu
Vu les nombreuses questions ils ont compris que le nouveau nom est pourri et cherchent un nom correct, changer de menu n'a pas aidé non plus.
In reply to Non ce n'est pas supprimé,… by frfancha
Merci beaucoup Frfancha !
In reply to Non ce n'est pas supprimé,… by frfancha
Ni ctrl delete ni timewise delete ne marche sur mon Mac