Sounds like "Show Active Layer Only" in the Doc menu is checked
On Jan 21, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > I had a bizarre problem crop up. I wonder if anybody else has seen this. > > I am working on an orchestral score. Most of the instruments have their > own staff, but a few are doubled up (FH1&2, FH3&4, Tpt1&2, etc) I use > manage parts most of the time I can simply stack the notes and let > Manage Parts take the top and bottom notes to two separate parts. > Sometimes the voices are different enough that I have to use the second > layer for the second part. Finale has always handled that reasonably. > > With this document, somewhere along the way, something got botched up > such that as soon as I clicked the layer-2 button, all the layer 1 notes > disappeared. They re-appeared as soon as I clicked on layer 1. > > I verified that other documents continued to work correctly. Only this > one MUSX file was wrong. I suspected some wayward keystroke changed the > document options settings. But when I went to the options-Layers box, > "hide layer when inactive" was unchecked for all layers. I tried > checking it, saving, then un-checking, but that had no effect. > > Ultimately I found that I had saved 4 versions of this MUSX file along > the way. The problem was present in the 3rd anf 4th, but the first 2 > were OK. So I resolved the problem by copying my second version, > clearing all the notes, then copying all the music from the broken 4th > version. Of course all my parts layouts were messed up, and things like > rehearsal marks don't come across. But it did fix the problem. > > Just wonder if anybody else has seen this. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
