Time signature issue.
Recently, I was working on a piece and tried to add repeat signs between a measure. Eventually, I used 2/4 to split a measure in half, deleted it and put a 3/4 since there was a pickup, and then placed the repeat at the end of that measure. But, later when I decided to undo the repeat, this little thing happened: //gyazo.com/a2a3a315588d6501a02d55a0a96ae870
Basically, in the lower chord parts, the first measure reads as 5/4 but says it's 4/4, while the top parts keep it in normal 4/4 as it should be. I've tried deleting the notes, and re-asserting the time signature, but with direct deletion, the note leaves a rest, and with time signature, it does erase the phantom notes but upon 4/4 reintroduction there is an extra rest where the notes were, ending up in 6/4 or 8/4 by wild miscalculations. Is there any way I can remedy this?
If it helps, it returns to 4/4 after that one measure.
I would love to attach the file, but I have not saved in a while. Saving may result in precious progress loss due to the offsetting format that has resulted.
~EDIT~: It would appear it IS reading in 4/4, but rather beaming strangely. When attempting to play, it freezes and skips forwards, plays, freezes and skips back, plays and skips forwards, and so on. Is there a way to fix THIS issue?
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I'm not seeing the 5/4 you describe. What I do see are eighth notes beamed as 6+2 rather than 4+4 - probably a side effect of the time signature change. But you can easily change the beaming of eighth notes - see Beam in the handbook. Or delete the notes and re-enter, which should restore deault beaming. Or maybe you are alkong about something else, but I can't tell from the picture. I'm not quite undersanding the resistance to saving. If you've saying you like the peviously saved version best and don't want to overwrite it, just do a save as.
In reply to I'm not seeing the 5/4 you by Marc Sabatella
I have tried deleting the notes and re-entering, but then it does not allow me to enter notes on the third beat, which looks like this: //gyazo.com/1317443b32daf3911ae966420e06cb2d
The resistance to saving is something minor; it won't quite matter if I can get the beaming fixed. After the page, it's perfectly normal but every attempt is not budging that particular page.
Edit: Another side effect, it also looks like the stem of the second note, once rebeamed, is pointing toward a note that isn't in the position it thinks it is. I can assure I have not touched its angle or position: [[http://gyazo.com/bcc0db88bd11dbb910819b01ba59613e]