Time signature appearing in middle of piece

Dorico
1

In the attached screenshot

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there’s a pink box showing time signature information. I don’t know how it got there! Is it important. I have a time signature at the beginning of the piece and I don’t need another one here, but it doesn’t seem to have put an extra one in.

2

It indicates a barline override or a hidden time signature (which are sort of one-and-the-same). Did you input a normal barline at that position? Try selecting the barline (not the signpost) and pressing Delete.

3

But if the stray barline override is apparently marked by a time signature signpost, why can’t you delete it by deleting the signpost?

4

I found myself with by the exact same problem. Having an ordinary passage of 4/4, an extra time signature chose to appear randomly in the middle of nowhere, and I couldn’t for the life of me understand why it would do so. However, deleting the barline, as suggested by Lillie, solved everything right away. I guess one must have done something questionable earlier on for that to happen.

By the way, the elephant remains in the room.

5

Signposts are representations of invisible elements in the score. The barlines aren’t invisible so they don’t get deleted when you delete the signpost. I agree that this appears somewhat confusing and it could use some cleaning up for the sake of the user.

6

There was fuller discussion of this situation in a couple of threads last year.