Unfilling the star removes it from the library, and then you can click on the Reset button to remove it from the project as well (it’ll be in the list if it’s in either the project or the user library). If you have a project in which that isn’t working then post it here and I can take a look.
Here’s a project (Originally created in Dorico 5) - I cannot delete or remove any of the chords - they were probably all set as a default after editing, (or overridden ??) - Notice in the 3rd bar of the trumpet part - The sharp of the F#Mi7 chord in appears higher than others and I can’t edit any F#mi7 chord to fix it.
In A Capricornian Way.dorico (3.0 MB)
I can remove all the chord symbols from that project, which suggests to me that whatever the problem is, it’s something to do with an interaction with what’s saved in the user library. Could you collect your Dorico Diagnostics and attach them here (they include the user library file)?
Diagnostics:
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (715.7 KB)
You have a gazillion sharp overrides (all the red triangles):
I don’t even know how to go about addressing all of those or how to get them all back to default. I don’t think it can be done through the Library Manager.
(That’s an amazing tune though! I did a Woody Shaw advent calendar countdown for his 80th birthday last December, posting a different Woody LP I owned on vinyl every day.)
Right, I can see what’s going on here, and it is actually working, though the user interface doesn’t make this very obvious and we might need to have a rethink.
The problem arises when you have an overridden chord symbol appearance s both in the user library and in the project, but the two are different. In this case you won’t see the filled star, because you’re not using the version from the user library, but pressing Reset won’t immediately delete the appearance from the list because of its presence in the user library. Thankfully it is actually possible to delete the chord symbol, but you have to Reset it, then OK the dialog, then reopen the dialog to see the effect of what you’ve done.
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Yes cool tune
The Engraving options don’t provide enough flexibility to create the look I wanted-so basically every chord has to be edited(very tedious)
Ideally each component of a chord needs a flexible engraving preference, or a way to control through a font style, otherwise with each successive project those #’s or b’s would accumulate.
Components for me would be Root(already managed with a font style); Accidental on Root, chord Quality, extension items. All of those currently have some control in the engraving options but not what I want.
I thought if I saved the chords from each project as a default, that eventually I’d build up the desired library of chords and the tedious editing would be reduced to occasional new chords. I’ve tried creating my own fonts to solve some issues with some success. But Dorico 6 “threw a wrench into things”
After struggling with Dorico 5, I had gone back to using Finale 27 because my chord library works great there. I had hoped Dorico 6 would solve some issues, but it seems it is even harder than 5 to get the look I want. And now it sounds as though I’ve cluttered up the program and you’re saying there may not be way to delete the clutter???
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There is a way to delete things you don’t want, it might just take a couple of passes through the dialog - once to Reset things, and then once more to “un-star” things to remove them from the user library (assuming that’s what you want to do).
However, if you know there’s nothing you want in your user library, you can just delete the whole thing, which will make things much quicker. It’s a file called userlibrary.xml in /Users/thomasdickow/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6. If you want to do that, make sure to delete it while Dorico isn’t running.