Restore default chord diagrams?

Dorico
1

Hi all,

is there a way to restore the factory chord diagrams for new projects, without altering existing projects?

Cheers,
B.

2

Hi @YourMusic.Pro, you can try with the Library Manager, comparing your project with the Factory Settings (but this probably is not what you asked, since you need to do it for every new Project…). Possibly someone has a better suggestion.

3

If there’s not a way to reset them all with the Library Manager (then Save as Default), you can always go into your userlibrary.xml file and just delete them:

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It looks like all diagram modifications are stored in your userlibrary.xml under chordDiagramCollectionDefinition. If you delete that whole section then they should be back to the default for all new projects. (The usual caveats with making backups etc apply when manually editing any file.)

4

Ah, super Todd!
And existing projects are unaffected by this? :thinking:

5

Yes, existing projects are completely unaffected by your user library. Everything that appears in the project is saved directly in the project and doesn’t depend on anything external to the project (modulo fonts etc.).

6

Thanks for the confirmation, Daniel! :smiling_face: :+1:

7

Hi again,

I’m just now trying to factory reset my chord diagrams, and am hesitant to edit XML. However, with the Library Manager, this happens:

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Meaning, comparing to Factory Settings shows no entries?

Help! :slight_smile:

Benji

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Did you edit any of the chord diagrams? If I edit one, it shows up in the library manager. I guess they already are the same as the factory default. Could be wrong, though.

Jesper