I have a passage I wish to copy from one file to another. I select All, and everything is highlighted, as in the first image. If I copy it to the same file, all is well; if I copy it to another file, some voices go missing. What am I doing wrong? I have done this many times, and never had voices disappear. The first image is what I am selecting; the second is how it appears pasted:
I have not experienced this myself. Can you narrow down the malfunction? How small a selection can you paste that still fails?
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I notice that the upstem voice cuts out at the tuplet. I have heard of this happening in XML transfers but not in a copy/paste transfer.
I would suggest looking at the tuplet carefully, perhaps even removing the tuplet while copying and the typing those notes back in once the rest of the notes have been pasted into the new file.
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So, removing the triplet allows everything else to copy - thank you, Derrek! However, I am puzzled by a lot of things:
–it copies correctly if I stay in the same file (I haven’t tried to a different flow within the file, as there is only one)
–it makes not difference if I hit Select All, or select the passage via the System Track
–I could live with the triplet anomaly, but all the up-stem voices after it also disappear. This can’t be intended behavior, can it?
I’m pretty sure it is not intended, but triplets (especially with the flexibility Dorico offers) are complicated on base-2computers, so this does occur, although, as I said, normally this happens when doing XML transfers.
And yet I can copy a quintuplet followed by a nested sextuplet in a quintuplet, and they copy fine. Seems like a bug to me…
I do understand your point, and now that I see this happening, I can watch out for it. I could understand the XML as it is a kind of translation, but this seems problematic.
Thanks, again!
Can you attach the project here, or send it to me, so I can take a look for myself and see if I can determine what’s going wrong?
Here is the project. As you can see, it copy/pastes within the file perfectly; it’s when I copy it to another file I get the results in original post.
Prelude.dorico (1.1 MB)
I have no problems copying and pasting this material to another project, unfortunately, so I’m not sure what to suggest.
And it now works for me - the odd thing is that when this problem started, I rebooted everything, restarted the laptop, but no change. Now it works, but I didn’t shutdown or restart in the interim; maybe my laptop just needed a nap…
Sorry for the bother!
There is one thing that can cause this. When you swap between projects, Dorico will typically load the new sounds for the new project (unless you tell it not to). If you paste material into the new project while it is still in the middle of loading sounds then the sound loading can interrupt the paste, which can result in some of the material going missing. The workaround is either not to activate the new project, or to wait until sound loading has finished before you paste.
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Interesting. I’m pretty certain I had chosen not to activate on the new project, but possibly I did. I’m using NotePerformer - which loads pretty quickly- and it’s just one instrument. But still, maybe this is the answer. And, something to watch for/wait for before pasting.
I appreciate your chiming in!