MuseScore 4.4.4 some hangs, some corruption, possibly related
hi, I love MuseScore (!), but am having trouble today.
I have been working on a composition for a while (currently 78 bars, 5 parts).
Today I added a 6th part and started copying from one staff to another and making small adjustments.
After several hangs, where I'd see the rotating beach ball for a minute or two, after which focus returned (and a note played, which helped me notice), I also noticed some corruption.
I'm making minor adjustments to vocals, e.g. changing an eighth note at the beginning of a measure to a sixteenth. Visually this appears to work (the 1/8 turns to 1/16 followed by a 1/16 rest as I would expect. But saving before and after this change the second save reports corruption. I revert and repeat at will.
(I tried pulling just a few measures out into a brand new score but can't reproduce the problem there.)
Any ideas? I'd be grateful for advice.
Tim
p.s. I'd be happy to share the file, but it's an original composition in progress, so I'm kind of self-conscious and cautious ...
OS: macOS 14.6, Arch.: arm64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.4-243461245, revision: 2232670
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p.s. I tried putting more into the smaller debug file but couldn't reproduce. I eventually found a work-around: by first changing the 1/8 note to a rest, then changing to two 1/16ths, then changing these rests to notes I was able to continue without corrupting.
p.p.s. Maybe one more comment: I suspect the bug has to do with their being 16th notes in the same measure in another part; at least when I've tried another similar change just now it works fine in the reduced, debug file, but not in the score with 5 or 6 parts. I'll try adding the part I suspect to the debug file ...
p.p.p.s. With the work-around I've learned I can move on, but now, making a similar change, the program hangs again (Activity Monitor shows "MuseScore Studio (Not Responding)" in red). When it returns from the hang the first thing I attempted was saving and hit the "corrupted" catch again.
Maybe the hint helps that in this case I'm trying to change the first 16th note to a rest.
The measure's rhythm is
1/16 1/8 1/6 (tie) 1/8 1/8 1/16 1/8 1/6 (tie) 1/8 1/8
(Thinking it might help, I tried selecting this measure and "deleting" instead, which should empty it, I think; this also hangs.)
In reply to p.p.p.s. With the work… by timbeechanson
What would REALLY help is to attach the score (.mscz file) that you are having problems with.