Two missing shortcuts, how to restore?

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Hi all!

At some point, I must have tampered with my shortcuts so that Y for entering percussion notes, and Alt+8 for opening the properties panel with the cursor in the search field, have stopped working.

I do not find any entry in preferences>key commands to edit. How do I get these key commands back?

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The file that contains key command mappings is located in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 5 on Windows and Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 5 on Mac (use 6 instead of 5 if you’re using D6).

It’s called keycommands_en.json, where en is the abbreviation for your Dorico language.

You can open it with a text editor and search for entries with these shortcuts. If you find them, it means that you have remapped these shortcuts to custom commands. Make a copy of the file before trying any edits.

Entries in the file look like this:

{
    "Edit.AddBarNumberChange" : [ "Ctrl+Shift+B" ]
},

{
    "Edit.BeamTogether" : [ "Alt+B" ]
},

{
    "Edit.CreateNoteSpacingChange" : [ "Ctrl+Alt+O" ]
},

To delete an entry, remove everything from the opening brace up to and including the comma after the closing brace. (The last entry in a list won’t have a comma.) So to remove the first mapping in my example, I would delete all of the first three lines.

You may also find entries where the value on the right looks like "DELETE:Y". This gets added when you try to map Y in the Preferences dialog and Dorico warns you that it’s already assigned to something else – Dorico needs to know to remove its default mapping and then add yours instead. You should remove this entry as well.

If all of this sounds daunting, you can upload the file here (need to zip it first), and someone can take a look.

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Thanks a lot Aaron, I will take a look in my key commands file!

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So, I found this:

{
				"context" : "kStepTimeInput",
				"shortcuts" : [
					
					{
						"NoteInput.Pitch?Pitch=X" : [ "DELETE:Y" ]
					}
				]
			},

There is nothing mapped to Y, so I guess it should be enough to just edit to

"NoteInput.Pitch?Pitch=X" : [ "Y" ]

When it comes to Alt+8 I am out of luck. I have mapped it to decrease grid resolution, but I cannot find any DELETE:-entry for that key combination.

My keycommands file was automatically transferred from the Dorico 5 user folder, maybe that has something to do with this? If the alt+8 shortcut to properties panel>search field was reinstated, maybe it does not show up unless the json file is brand new?

Edit: I guess it must be these:

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But none of them work. I found one item in the UI section of key commands in preferences, and set it to ctrl+alt+shift+8, but nothing happens.

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You could also just delete everything shown in your snippet, from the first opening brace through the comma. The key commands file only shows changes from the default Dorico key commands, and since Y is mapped by default, there’s no need to map it explicitly.

No, because the file only shows changes from Dorico defaults.

Those key commands work for me – if you’d like to upload your file, I can give it a try.

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Thanks, that’s very kind of you, I might take you up on that if I cannot solve it! Anyway, resetting all keyboard commands made alt+8 work, so there is probably some of my custom commands conflicting with this one.

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