On Nov 3, 2007, at 5:06 PM, dc wrote:
I'm doing a multi-movement piece in one file, spacing and laying
out the movements as I go along. And now, all of a sudden, piece #5
won't space correctly at all, and I haven't changed anything. The
notes are at least twice as tight as they should be.
Any ideas what I could have done wrong? I checked the Music spacing
options, and nothing seems to have changed.
I doubt you have done anything wrong. I have seen this before, and it
appears to be file corruption. It probably starts around where the
5th movement starts, though you could probably pin it down closer if
you had to. Funny things start to happen, like bad spacing, ties
start acting wonky, you can't delete measure contents, stems aren't
connected to noteheads anymore, that kind of thing.
You could try adding measures to the end of the document, copying the
contents of movement 5 to the later measures, then deleting the
corrupted measures. I don't know if this will solve it, though,
because this kind of corruption is usually additive; it starts at bar
60 (say) and goes to the end, whether you add new measures or not.
Try also copying your 5th movement to a new document temporarily,
deleting the corrupted measures from your work document, then adding
new fresh measures and then copying your 5th movement back into your
file. This might not work either, though. You might have to resort to
copying the entire contents of the file to a new document, which
means that you lose all that formatting work (unless you only print
to the end of movement 4, then movement 5 starts a new document.)
I would definitely send this file on to tech support. I have done so
every time I see corruption, so they know it is happening. They
always say they can't reproduce the problem with a fresh document,
but that's kind of the point with file corruption; it just happens
once in a while. They might be prodded into creating some new file
maintenance routines to fix this kind of thing when it crops up,
instead of us losing hours or days of work.
If anyone has any other suggestions, please jump in.
Christopher
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