Music disappears when moving systems

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Post by Greensill » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:24 pm

I had this trouble before with an earlier version....can't remember which one...but some how it was resolved. Now it's happening again since I upgraded to Mojave. I'm on finale 26. When using the staff tool to alter the distance between systems, in page view, all the music disappears.

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Post by N Grossingink » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:38 pm

To adjust space between systems, use the Page Layout Tool (Systems > Edit Margins). Could be whatever you're doing with the Staff Tool is causing the disappearing music.

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Post by michelp » Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:36 pm

The D key refreshes the screen. In this case, it might help.
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Post by motet » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:01 pm

The staff tool can be used to adjust the space between systems (dragging the top staff of a system) but I agree the Page Layout tool is the better way to go. I don't know why music is disappearing, though. If you have hard page breaks it may have moved on to a future page. If you have Automatic Update Layout turned off, turn it on (and leave it on--it's worthless to turn it off).

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Post by montedoro44 » Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:26 pm

In my case just now, everything disappeared when I clicked anything anywhere, on any page, score or parts. Moving to a new part restored it. I tried different tools -- everything disappeared, except in some cases there would be traces of the tool, like handles for the Measure tool. Playing the music erased it as it played.

I copied everything to a new default file -- no better.

Until I randomly chose the Text tool -- I dbl-clicked to make a text box, and all was normal. I zapped the text box and all was normal. Played though the file, saved it, re-opened it, messed with it, all seems to still be normal again. A demon? WTH.

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Post by N Grossingink » Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:20 am

motet wrote:
Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:01 pm
If you have Automatic Update Layout turned off, turn it on (and leave it on--it's worthless to turn it off).
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Post by montedoro44 » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:26 am

Strange, I turned off Auto update a couple weeks ago, on advice (from motet?) that doing so would shorten long wait-time for Finale loading, and it seems to have accomplished that. Finale has some curious behaviors, and seemingly random resolutions.

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Post by motet » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:30 am

I don't think it was me--I'm constantly ragging on people to leave it on!

I wouldn't think it would affect Finale start-up time. I solved the start-up delay by telling Windows Security not to scan it when it loads.

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