Missing Bar Line

[konradh]

Why did my bar line suddenly disappear, and how do I put it back? Bar 19 is one bar of 8/4 instead of two bars of 4/4. There is a strange signpost at the top of the score.

UPDATE: Deleting that signpost fixed the problem, but I don’t know what caused it. Oddly, the signpost said 4/4, but that wasn’t what the staff showed.

[Janus]

@konradh

UPDATE: Deleting that signpost fixed the problem, but I don’t know what caused it. Oddly, the signpost said 4/4, but that wasn’t what the staff showed.

Clearly you deleted a barline (by accident). Had you double clicked the signpost, it would likely have shown 4/4,8 (ie a 4/4 pick-up bar with 8 beats)

EDIT: @dspreadbury It would be really helpful if those signposts could show the pick-up length.