How to delete a tonality system?

Dorico
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I’m trying to delete a tonality system from the Tonality System menu. When I choose it, the trash can icon is white, showing that the tonality System can be deleted, but when I press the trash button, nothing happens. How can I get rid of unwanted Tonality Systems in the default document?

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I have the same problem. Although possibly a bug, it might be that the tonality system you are trying to delete is being used in some other flow. In my case, I haven’t been able to find it (or them). For the Dorico team: Is it possible to trace a “where used” path to those flows that use a particular tonality system?

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If you really can’t delete it from an otherwise empty document, then at worst, you could remove your userdefaults.xml file from Dorico’s user settings folder, restart; create a new, clean document – then use the Library Manager to copy over everything (except the tonalities!) and resave your defaults.

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No, it’s definitely not used in any flow. Looks like a bug.

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Thanks, I suppose I’ll have to do that (remove userdefaults.xm)

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On my W10 machine, I found the file at C:\Users[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5, and the file name is userlibrary.xml. I can open the file with WordPad. It might be possible to edit it (correctly!), but I have not tried this yet. Editing the file might be easier than deleting it and copying over your other settings in a fresh start.

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If you have a non-deletable tonality system in a project, please feel free to attach it here and I’ll take a look.

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Thanks! Here, I can’t delete any of my Tonality Systems (in any project). I’d like to get rid of the ones called HEJI2020 and Pythagorean.
undeletable TS.dorico (1.3 MB)

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There are no tonality systems in this project. The tonality systems you can’t delete will be located in your userlibrary.xml file. If you want to do Help > Create Diagnostic Report you can attach the resulting zip file here, and I can remove them manually from the userlibrary.xml file for you.

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OK, here it is. I looked at the userlibrary.xml file in a text editor and couldn’t tell what to delete and how, so I appreciate your help very much. Is it so that the trash can button only works if the Tonality Systems to be deleted are used in the project? But that doesn’t make sense…
Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.3 MB)

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Here you go:

userlibrary.xml.zip (48.0 KB)

It is indeed the case that the delete button only allows you to delete tonality systems that are saved in the project. There is at present no way in the user interface of the application to remove tonality systems that are in the user library.

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Excellent! Thank you!