Deleting measures causes notes to transpose and file corruption - Help!
First, I love this software. Thank you for the efforts.
I was working on some music recently, and I discovered a particular
repeatable bug. I was deleting old intro measures from the beginning of a
score, and whenever I deleted the first measure (containing the key
signature) my trombone and tuba parts would get transposed several octaves.
Sometimes they would go up and start printing in treble clef, and sometimes
they would get transposed down several octaves. This would also corrupt the
file, so that the next time I go to open the file, it says it's corrupted and
the music is incorrect. The music will also look and print differently in the main score vs the individual parts.
In particular, I have one score (attached) that got corrupted after I put a lot of time
into it, and I would like to get it fixed without going through the process
of rebuilding the score from scratch. I don't know how to un-corrupt the file. In this case the low brass is printing in treble clef, and it got transposed octaves PLUS a third. I'm just
wondering if it possible that you guys can fix this file somehow, un-corrupt it? Or am I on
my own?
I'm using Musescore 2.0.3, but this file originally created using a different version. Recent work was done using 2.0.3.
Thanks,
Francisco Jones
Kankakee IL
| Attachment | Size |
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| American Patrol.mscz | 92.71 KB |
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In reply to see: by Shoichi
I tried to correct my file using the instructions provided. I used the "voices" technique because the note values look correct (see list below). This did not work, and in fact made the problem worse according to the list of bad measures. It also added a very large number of rests everywhere that I now have to delete. I encountered several problems when trying to fix my file.
-Every measure, and virtually every instrument shows a problem, and the problem is not consistent. See below.
-The measures show the correct number of note values for the time signature even though those same measure show an error in the details list.
-the parts in the main score look very different from the parts in each individual part. The main score is worse. Which do I use to correct the errors? The main score, or the individual parts?
-Some parts on the main score are blank, even though the separate part for that instrument is not blank.
A partial list of my errors is below. The complete list is 7 pages, and all 36 measures:
Measure 2 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 3 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 4 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 2/4
Measure 2 Staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 6 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 7 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 2 Staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 3 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 4 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 2/4
Measure 3 Staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 6 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 7 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 3 Staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 3 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 4 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 1/2
Measure 4 Staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 6 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 7 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 4 Staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 5 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 5 Staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 5 Staff 3 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 5 Staff 4 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 5 Staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 5 Staff 6 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 5 Staff 7 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 5 Staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 7/8
Measure 5 Staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 6 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 6 Staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 6 Staff 3 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 6 Staff 4 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 6 Staff 5 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 6 Staff 6 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
Measure 6 Staff 7 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 6 Staff 8 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 7/8
Measure 6 Staff 9 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 4/8
Measure 7 Staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 4/4; Found: 8/16
In reply to I tried to correct my file by frandog
Here you go. You've still got a mess, but I don't think you'll find this file corrupt.
The problem was incorrect measure lengths that didn't match the key signature.
Here's what I did. I opened it in spite of errors. I noticed that (1) the first measure lacked a time signature in the first staff. I also right clicked on various measures and checked the measure properties. All except the first measure were supposed to be 4/4, but most of them only had two beats. According to your error message, some had almost 4 beats. I could have selected all and changed the actual measure length to 2 beats, but that would be kind of stupid.
I saved it as an .mscx file and looked at it with a text editor, but I didn't see an obvious problem. So I opened the .mscx file and then dragged the 4/4 time signature to the second measure. Bling! Fixed. At some point the missing 2/4 also fixed itself (possibly by saving to .mscx), or maybe I fixed it. I think I could have worked directly with the .mscz file. I then saved it as an .mscz file, and there you have it.
In reply to Here you go. You've still by RexC
Oh wow. Thank you very much for doing that. It was way more complicated that I expected. I would not have been able to figure that out by myself. But I did learn from this. Hopefully next time I will be able to handle it on my own. Thanks again.
Francisco
In reply to Oh wow. Thank you very much by frandog
I didn't even notice that Shoichi had already posted a repaired file, and he did it better than I did. But never mind. Here's an even easier way of fixing it.
Just open the file and ignore the corruption. Then create a new file with all the instruments, the right key signature (2 flats), and 2/4 time signature. Add measures so the new file is at least as long as the corrupted one. Then switch to the corrupted file press ^a and ^c to highlight and copy all the notes. Switch back to the other file and press ^v to copy into it. You'll still have to put in the repeats and certain other parts. Now, if you had any partial measures (e.g., 1 beat in a 2/4 measure), you would have to go and fix those. Right click on the measure and select Measure Properties.
Now you need to fix the trombone and tuba parts. Select both parts (all the notes) and press ^(down arrow) to lower them an octave.
Finally, create the parts.
Short version:
1. Open the file.
2. Create a new file with all the instruments, same key signature, and same length or longer.
3. Working from the conductor's score, copy everything into the new file. (This copies the notes but not the measure lengths.
4. Add repeats and any other information that you find missing.
5. Fix any measures that are supposed to be less than 2 beats (in this case I think you have none).
6. Lower the trombone and tuba parts by an octave.
7. Create the parts and save the file.
In reply to I didn't even notice that by RexC
Again, thanks for all the guidance and help. The corrected files are working now.
In reply to Again, thanks for all the by frandog
I forgot to mention. The 7-step process I outlined above gives you an even better file that Shoichi's version. I didn't attach the file because I thought it would be instructive for you to work through it. In any case, enjoy the score.