MS opens file with asterisk indicating change
Restatement: I open a native file in MS (.mscz format). It opens with the asterisk in the tab indicating changes have been made to the score. But I just opened it! I haven't changed anything yet! So here's the latest one that did this to me. Drives me nuts. Would appreciate a direction on this, please. Using MS version 3.6.2.548021803. Thank you.
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| Is Tuesday Good Is Wednesday Better.mscz | 18.79 KB |
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As the dialog says when you open the file (unless you previously told MuseScore to stop showing it to you), this file was created in a much older version. Many things have to be converted to the new format when you import it, and the dialog offers you choices about how you want that conversion done. It's those decisions and the conversions that result that MuseScore would need to save if you don't want MuSeScore to then need to do the same thing again next time you open the file. Best to just go ahead and save it, then the conversions are done for good - until you update to MuseScore 4, and you will want to do the same there.
In reply to As the dialog says when you… by Marc Sabatella
That's what this is? The few works I've let MS convert have turned into horror stories. Nothing is properly aligned. Not. One. Thing. Ever. In any work. I must have turned off the prompt a long time ago. And it still wants to make changes? Definite undesirable behavior. I hope that when 4 comes out (and when will that be, please?), its conversion algorithms are much better behaved than 3's have been. Thank you, Marc.
In reply to That's what this is? The few… by km2002
In 3.6 opening a pre-3.6 score is considered an import, reasons as s per Marc. In MuseScore 4 a pre-4 score will be considered an import, so it'll do the same thing again.
The setting you made to no longer asked whether or not to accept these changes is in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/preferences#import
In reply to That's what this is? The few… by km2002
If you've opened a score in 3.6, it's converted - MuseScore is not capable to of reproducing all the old bugs and quirks and limitations of MuseScore 2. So if you're happy with how the score looks, maybe that suggests you've been being too hard on MuseScore 3 :-)
In general, most scores created in MuseScore 2 should simply look better in MuseScore 3, since tons of things were improved. However, when you mention things not being aligned - that suggests maybe you had been doing manual adjustments to overcome the bugs and limitations and quirks of MuseScore 2. Like maybe you had to go out of your way to force things to be aligned that should have been aligned by default but MuseScore 2 wasn't smart enough to do it for you. And since MuseScore 3 is much better about this, those same manual adjustments are exactly the cause of things not being aligned. So yes, when you open a manually adjusted MuseScore 2 in MuseScore 3, often those manual adjustments turn out to be counterproductive. So it's usually better to accept MuseScore's offer to reset all your old manual adjustments, to take advantage of MuseScore 3's far superior defaults rather than apply adjustments that mess them up.
The same will be true in MuseScore 4. It contains tons of improvements over MuseScore 3, just some phenomenally better engraving. But it means, if you've done a bunch of manual adjustments to overcome the limitations in MuseScore 3, you'll be better off just resetting those upon import into MuseScore 4, or you'll find the same thing being true - manual adjustments that seemed necessary in 3 may turn out to be counterproductive in 4. Such is the nature of progress!