Hello Robert, Yes, I've seen this before. Since this file sounds like it has more than one movement I'm assuming you have more than one measure number region created. Make sure Program Options>View>Measure Numbers is set to "Display ACTUAL Measure Numbers" before adding the measure. This will usually clear-up most of the problems you describe. It's been broken since 2009, maybe even 2008 and MM knows about it. I lodge a complaint every year. This bug usually occurs when you have more than one measure number region.
Do you have any measure's Measure Attributes "Include in Measure Numbering" unchecked? If so, you may have problems if "ACTUAL" is NOT selected. Key changes, tempo changes, expression assignments, repeats, barline changes, along with music spacing moved to other measures are all signs of this problem. You will have zero problems when you select "ACTUAL" in program options. I've been bitten by this bug too many times when it was first introduced so I setup a QuicKey that toggles "ACTUAL" and "DEFINED" in order for me to work but most of the time I have to work in actual because I do a lot of work in the Measure Attributes dbx which will assign whatever changes I make to a different measure. This is another Finale bug that occurs where the user thinks they did something wrong because they may not notice the problem until later so it is usually not reported. I did extensive testing in this area and concluded with concrete findings, wrote it up, sent to MM, and received confirmation. Still nothing has been done about it but it can really destroy a job. Another clunkier option to add the measure is to make a copy of the file, open the original file and remove all of the measure number regions, add the measure to the score, then open the duplicated file, using your Scrapbook plugin copy the measure number regions from the duplicated file into the original file then adjust the measure number regions to reflect the added measure. Not ideal but just another option. Let me know if you have any questions. It's a nasty bug that people need to be aware of. Steve On 11/4/12 7:35 PM, "Robert Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote: >I am doing another project with the parts and score in one file, and I >want >to be sure I am not crazy. After having laid out most of the parts, I >decided to add a bar in the middle of the first movement. What happened >was >this: > >1. The note spacing of all the parts destroyed (but not the measure >widths). >2. All the "Begin New System" bits were reset to not checked. >3. The note spacing of a few bars throughout the score was also reset. >4. All the page breaks in the parts were deleted. >5. The multimeas rests that encompassed the added bar were destroyed and >had to be recreated. > >Has anyone else seen behavior like this? In this case, recovering was not >that bad, but I am thankful I didn't spend a lot of time manually spacing >the parts. It just seems like another half-completed area of linked parts >that detracts significantly from its value. >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
