Deleting chord symbol overrides from Dorico 5

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Hi Forum;
I need to delete chord symbol overrides I created in Dorico 5 from my new install of Dorico 6 uopgrade.
Here’s the workflow

  1. In Dorico 5I had created chord symbol overrides
    chd overrides
    chd overrides2922×2062 461 KB
  2. I opened Project Default Chord Symbol Appearances in Dorico 6; wanted to delete all previous chords
  3. Selected a chord
  4. Trash was greyed out
    I tried various combinations of edits, e.g.:
    Click “Reset to factory” (lower left icon group)
    Click “Apply to all roots”
    Click “Discard current changes to chord symbol” (upper right of window)
    Click “Reset to factory” (lower left icon group) again
    The old chord override would disappear from the list.
    However, after restarting Dorico 6 the old overrides (from Dorico 5) were still there.
    I’d like to delete all the old overrides from Dorico 5 and “start fresh” adding overrides using the greatly improved chord symbol editor in Dorico 6.
    Any help
    Thanks, Bill
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If you don’t need to keep any other customisations you made, try moving userlibrary.xml out of the ~/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6 folder, then restart Dorico. That will certainly clear out all your saved chord symbol appearances, but also any other customisations you’ve saved as default.

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Thanks Daniel! That worked.
Bill

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Hi Daniel,

I have the same problem, and I’m afraid this solution didn’t work for me on Windows 10, Dorico 6 Pro.

After the xml was moved (Dorico 6 restarted, plus OS restarted), everything stayed the same, with delete option still greyed out.

I tried a workaround by opening the old file in Dorico 5, deleting all custom chord symbols there and opening that file in Dorico 6 again. The result of that is even more curious: there are other leftover custom chord symbols that somehow show in D6 (but not in D5), and no way to delete those.

I hope there’s another solution to this. Among others, I have several educational files with tons of chord symbols that desperately need unification.

Thanks!

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For me the solution was to export an dorico library from a new file, made in dorico 6 and import all that settings in the dorico5 made file. That erased all the chord edits. I’m on Windows 11.

Also the OP says the trash can is grayed out but you can hit the curved arrow next to the trash can an that will problaby also do the job.

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Vladimir, if you want to share one of your troublesome projects, we can take a look.

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Hi Maarten,

That curved arrow seems to help (it looks like undo to me, but it also undoes previously edited symbols, which helps). No need to export or import anything, in my case.

Heel erg bedankt!

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The curved arrow (reset to factory) worked on my MacBook. I had the same issue - the trash can is grayed out making me believe I couldn’t delete an override chord in the Project Default Chord Symbol Appearances dialog. Although I believe my project was created using Dorico 6.

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