On 26 Apr 2005, at 9:38 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Can you be more specific about what edits you have done on the files once you open them?
More specific? What do you mean, exactly? This file is an original composition for big band that I've been working on for a long time (far too long, in fact). I started the piece in Fin2004, but it was updated for Fin2005 a while back. Like I said, I haven't run Mass Copy or copied anything from other documents or imploded staves or done anything that is known to cause duplicate hairpins.
I have noticed a lot of duplicate items piling up, particularly rehearsal letters and tempo indications, as you mentioned,
See, I never have a problem with duplicate rehearsal letters or tempo indications, even in 2k5.
and also measure-attached Smart Shapes like hairpins and "Even 8ths-------- " custom lines,
The only items I've seen duplicated are hairpins. Other measure-attached smart shapes, like trill extension lines, 8va lines, etc., aren't cloned -- at least, not in this file.
I suspect that it isn't actually working as intended, and items are copying anyway, even though I set them NOT to copy. Could that be causing your problems? You said that you hardly ever copy EVERYTHING, but if it isn't filtering properly, could that be it?
No -- the hairpins on the sop. sax. part have *never* been copied to or from another staff. And I'm getting duplicates everywhere in the score, not just on measures where I've copied something vertically.
And copying measure-attached smart shapes only works as expected -- in fact, it's the *solution* to the problem. Remove the duplicate hairpins from one staff, then copy it to all the other staves. This behavior definitely does not cause duplicates.
I take it that the duplicates don't show up when you first open the file; you have to do something first to cause it.
I have no idea when the duplicates showed up, because they are exact copies of the original, superimposed perfectly. There is no way to even tell they're there except by clicking on them individually and dragging, to see if they leave their clone behind.
Frankly, I'm stumped.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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