Copy and Paste not working

Dorico
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I hope this works…

I created a video to show that Copy and Paste did not work in a file I am working on.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? And if so, how did you fix it?

Robby

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I don’t think that’s a public link, Robby. I certainly can’t access the file from here, even if I log in to Dropbox.

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Give me a second, to try and fix that.

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Does this work?

Robby

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What I find very weird, is that it only happens in this file.

I restarted Dorico, several times. I restarted my computer. And copy and paste does not work in this file.

I closed this project, and opened another file, and I could very easily copy and paste within the other file.

Robby

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Yep - that video works. I don’t have an instant answer, though…

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OK, I’ll send the file to Daniel, to see if they can figure something out.

Robby

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20 bars before the place where you’re trying to paste, in bar 189, you have a staff count change event. I believe what’s happening is that you’re somehow forcing Dorico to paste into a staff that you can’t see. If you delete the staff count change at bar 189 on the 2nd clarinet staff, you should find that the paste works as you expect.

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Thanks Daniel,

I’ll research that, as I don’t remember creating a staff count change event.

By ‘staff count change event’ do you mean like a hide staff command?

Robby

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Yes, that is indeed what I mean.

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That worked. Thanks so much Daniel.

What confused me was:

1.) I don’t remember creating the staff change count. So maybe this was a remnant from a deleted “Divisi” part? Who knows?!?!?!

2.) I was confused, as there was no way of me knowing what I was doing. Could this behavior be fixed? Or even give me some kind of warning in the future?

Robby

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Ideally certainly you wouldn’t be left in that situation, of course.

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