Xml import last half of piece blank!

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Exported from Final and imported into Dorico. Looks great and only a teeny tiny few minor edits…until…last half of movement blank apart from some text expressions. Found another post on this but still can’t solve it

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The cause is probably a tuplet that Dorico doesn’t like - this sometimes happens when you have tuplets in multi-voice textures. You might have to delete the tuplet before the export and re-add it in Dorico.

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I noticed triplets in bar 171.
They quite often wreck .xml import.
I would try to split the original project (if that’s possible in Finale) and make a second import with the remaining bit.
Alternatively check the bars after 170, if there are any Finale workarounds concerning tuplet input.
If you want, you can also post your zipped finale file here.

[edit] @mducharme you beat me in response time. And your solution might be more effortless.

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Thanks both. Will have a look at splitting the file and then finding any errant triplets! (Although previous bars have lots of triplets and they are fine).

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Exported and imported 2nd half of score - no difference. There is a weird popover re time but when I delete that (as no time change) the remaining bars all bunch together. I thought I hid some bars in score in Finale - would this create this type of behaviour? - but looking again there were no hidden bars either. All other triplets in piece before this point were OK
earth call 2nd half.zip (1.3 MB)

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JJmus,
we can probably track down the offending mistake if you could post the finale file. Sometimes workarounds in the other program lead to mistakes in .xml export. I have heard that one can “overfill” a bar in Finale, f.e. This might not be true anymore, still…
Other possible strategies could be:

  1. import xml to musescore, export to xml from there, import into Dorico
  2. export as .pdf from Finale. Import into SmartScore or PlayScore. Export to .xml from there and try your luck again…
  3. sometimes it is easiest to quickly rewrite problematic passages directly in Dorico.
  4. I have used the split method when exporting from problematic pdfs.
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we can probably track down the offending mistake if you could post the finale file.

Thanks KB, it won’t allow me to post the Finale file!
Will try the musescore import/export

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You can post anything inside a zip file.

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You can post anything inside a zip file.

Thanks Janus
tried the musscore, it said the file was corrupted (fine in Finale) but opened it just fine. I then exported again as xml and same thing happened when importing in Dorico. Definalty something going awry around bar 171

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OK so I re-imported to musescore without any corruption problems.
Looked at bar 171 which seemed to have hidden rests making the bar not equal to the time signature. I deleted everythign in that bar (I can write it in again) and the bar looked to be normal. Exported to xml and imported into Dorico again…PRESTO all the notes (apart from b.171) are now there. I can copy and paste the second half into the already edited first half and should be OK.

I guess some files will have remnants of various things which look at first sight OK in Finale, but are actually maiing the file not behave properly. In future I know to troubleshoot this way.

So, KB you are right in that Finale did in fact ‘overfill’ the bar which led to the problem

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done!