Could be several places to find the fix: First, look at your default page
setup. Check and see if the systems in question are optimized; sometimes
Un-optimizing then re-optimizing wakes up something in the software and it
might correct. Another is redefine all pages if the other things aren't
working. As a final attempt, you can make sure all your page setup items
are what you want, do a Save As so you can always go back to the original
file. Then, (this was a Coda (when they were still Coda) solution years
ago), Group all the staves as 1 New Group (you can delete it later in the
new doc you create), then Extract Parts (SELECTING ONLY the new group you
just created). Coda told me this is one way to clean out junky data that
may be causing a doc to behave badly. When you open the newly created
(extracted) part, you can delete the group you just created and if you
still see the goofy margin issues, I don't know what else to suggest that
you would want to hear about (ie: re-doing the score, which I have had to
do only a couple of times over the years because of a badly corrupted
file.)
I went straight from 2002b to 2006d, so I've had some issues with midi and
playback problems (sometimes a stave or two ignores Hairpings dynamics,
expressions, etc) which has given me some serious heartburn, but I have
usually been able to fix the problem (usually by creating a new staff and
copying ONLY the entries and NOT the Performance/Continuous data info).
This only seems to happen when I open the older doc with the newer
version, and the older version was set up for midi playback, not using
NI/Garritan samples.
I've got a strange problem.
I have edited a file from 2002 in FinMac 2006c, and I am at the very
end of the operation, laying out the score.
I can't change the bottom system margins of any system in the score.
They are all set to zero, according to the window, but the bottom
right handle is about 1.75 inches below the lowest system and
obstinately refuses to be raised any more. It is exactly as if there
are two extra staves that I can't see, but I can't find any tool that
recognises that there are more than seven staves (what I can see.)
File Maintenance finds no problems with the integrity of the doc, and
Sort or Respace does nothing.
I know if all else fails I can copy the contents to a new file and
most likely the bug will not be copied to the new file, but that is a
lot of work considering I am in the home stretch. Any ideas?
I seem to be the only one this happens to. Or maybe I just edit old
files a lot, so it happens more.
Christopher
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