Help needed: how to ask finale to reassess and remove unnecessary accidentals

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ArielAr
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Post by ArielAr » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:24 am

Hello!

I imported into Finale 25 a musicxml file from a software called guitarPro.

The result is that I got a lot of unnecessary accidentals.

I wanted to ask finale to "reevaluate" the score and remove unneeded accidentals, but did not find the way to do so.

And to do manually....well...it is a 175 measures long score...there must be some intelligent way.

Can anyone help me ? I attach the file just in case.

Thanks

Ariel//
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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:57 am

This plug-in Canonic Utilities can “clear” frozen accidentals.

Plug-ins menu > Scoring and Arranging > Canonic Utilities…

Have you tried that plug-in?
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David Ward
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Post by David Ward » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:00 pm

If you've got the full (ie extra paid for) version of TGTools, Music > Accidentals > Check Accidentals may do what you want.
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ArielAr
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Post by ArielAr » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:36 pm

Thank you so much David and Peter !!!!

I did NOT have the Check Accidentals tolls in TGTools...

But the “clear” frozen accidentals did the magic !!!

Thank you so much !!!!!

Ariel//

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motet
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Post by motet » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:55 pm

JW Change will also unfreeze accidentals.

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