Page layout lost after saving a notation

[veneman]

Dear Sherry,

It crossed my mind that my own configuration is very richly loaded with applications. Going back a some restore points does not make sense.
But my neighbour has bought Composer too and installed on a brand new Windows 7 system, no further apps installed. He has exactly the same problems.

While on mu previous configurations with XP and Vista I did not have this problem. So I have just done a test with the Windows 7 compatitiblity tool Run File Explorer, got to the composer directory, right click on composer.exe, left click on Solve Compatibility Problems,
Start the analyses.
It found that it indicates compatibility issues, and advices to run Composer in Windows XP SP3 mode. Then click on continue and save to run Composer alway in XP-SP3 mode.

Problem is solved as far as I can see (with 2.5.2 and 2.61)

Cheers Jaap Veneman

[Sherry C]

Hi Jaap,

Thanks for that further research and findings. I'll write that up for looking into, and keep the information on hand for others who may run into the same issues.

Thanks!
Sherry

Hello.

I have exactly the same problem.
Working with layout, saving, quitting.
The next time I start NC changes are (partly) lost.
Annoying.

Maybe it has something to do with default paper size,
which is usally A4 in europe and "letter" in the US.
Or some other differences between installs on european and american computers?

Heiko.

[Sherry C]

Hi Heiko,

Sorry for the problem. Did you try Jaap's workaround of running Composer in "XP SP3" compatibility mode? I've tried that, and it does workaround the problem some of the time, but not all of the time (for me). We're trying to figure out the exact conditions here, so knowing what you've tried may be helpful.

Thanks!
Sherry

Hi Sherry.

Sorry, that doesn´t work.
tried it either with XP-SP3 and with XP-SP2, nothing works.
One of (many) not working Files as attachment.

Cheers Heiko

Ok, I played around a little.
I was thinking, because these were all files written with older versions, I tried to copy the score and started a new file with new from clippboard.

But the problem occured again:
BUT not in one part (if you open new attachment it´s "Chor & Bass")
This part let´s me save layout, the others are quite stubborn and don´t allow changes in layout most of the time - but: sometimes there was a change.
Strange.......

I hope you can fix this problem.
Strange that we are the only one, having those problems.

Cheers, Heiko

[veneman]

Dear Cherry, Heiko,
Untill now I had no problems with Notation files loosing formatting.
Although I as little as possible formatting applied in most of my notation files.

I tried the seasons.not file on my computer. I applied a 4 measures per stave
for all staves with the releavant button (1234) and saved the file. The loaded it again. Some of the formatting is gone indeed. (measure freeses and system breaks)
I also tried this with some different formattings like pagebreaks, system breaks, also in this file part of the formatting is gone after saving and reloading. So it looks like the compatibility mode XP-SP3 is
not a complete solutiong, although is improved the work for me.

Also I use only A4 paper format, but also tried the test with letter format.
It had the same problems.

Cheers Jaap