Mystery: Odd partial measure (wrapped?), odd bar counting

Hi. I’m learning Dorico with my first ever project. I’m alternating 6/8 and 5/8 measures. A weird artifact has cropped up in a 6/8 bar. The bar has wrapped to the next staff line, so there’s a fragment at the right of the page with 1 beat and then a fragment on the next line at the left of the page with 5 beats. But something else is going on too, since the prior bar and both fragments are all numbered as bar 6 (and this screws up all subsequent bar numbering).

I can’t find any settings that would affect this (and I did restart Dorico). Help? Screenshot and project attached. (The screenshot shows just one instrument, but this affects the whole score.) Thanks!


Bach Lute Prelude in Dm - subverted for trio copy2025-01-13p1238.dorico (1.1 MB)

Hard to tell how you did this, even from the actual dorico file. I guess you may have inadvertently entered a time signature with an upbeat, or inserted one somewhere in the middle, while there already was a TS in the next bar. When Insert Mode is off, Dorico will not add beats in between (which in this case probably was not what you wanted anyway).
It’s easily fixed, though: simply delete the 6/8 following the 1/8 bar, and the beats will add up again.

It would be comforting to know exactly how I managed to do this, but…your solution worked perfectly! Thanks so much! Learning recommences.