Hide empty staves is not hiding empty staves

Dorico
#1

New to Dorico here. I’ve got a musical theatre rehearsal score layout in which I’m trying to hide staves of singers who are not performing in any given system. For this layout, in setup I choose “Hide Empty Staves - All Systems” and I’ve checked the box, hide unused staves of grand staff instruments.

As a result, most of the unused staves are hidden (perhaps 80%), but a few are not. For example I have a “chorus” grand staff in my layout with nothing currently in the bass clef, yet whenever music is present in the treble clef, the bass clef is also present. At least 5 other systems in this layout have completely empty vocal staves present. These bars are completely empty. No hidden items. Any ideas on how to fix this?

#2

I had a similar situation and I learned, that it’s not possible to hide one stave if the chorus is an “ensemble player”. If you setup the chorus as a single player is should work.

#3

Is this imported musicXML, perchance?

#4

Thanks I’ll try that.

The music was eventually brought into Dorico via SMF, cleaned up in a separate Dorico project, then imported into this Project with the “IMPORT FLOW” feature.

#5

Try selecting and deleting the initial clefs at the start of bar 1 (of each flow). If you can select them, they’re explicit clefs that prevent Dorico from hiding staves. If you can’t select them, the problem is something different.

#6

HIDE EMPTY STAVES MYSTERY SOLVED!

This worked. Thank you!

Thanks. I couldn’t select the clef… but I WAS ABLE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE by selecting the whole rests in these sections and pressing delete! I have no idea how these whole rests got ‘written into’ the part, but apparently Dorico saw them as ‘filled’ with user entered data.