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Hi,

Not to long ago I noticed that my BIAB 2022 shrinks the notation window font size every time I open BIAB regardless of whether it is the same song file or not. The notation options font % reduces. It continues until the staff appears as a single very thin line. In other words you do not have to view that screen and it still reduces it.

It never did this in prior versions and to be honest I don't remember it happening in this version before. It is definitely not the song files because I can cause it to happen while togging the open between two song files.

Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?

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John


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Hi John,

I had BIAB 2022 and that is not an issue I recall coming across. Have you installed the latest build for BIAB 2022? It's update/build #927.
You can check what build you are currently running by having a look at "Help | About Band In A Box". It will be in parentheses after Version 2022

https://dl11.pgmusic.com/support/patch/bb2022_win_update_build927.exe

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Hi Noel,

Thanks for reminding me to do that update. Unfortunately it did not fix the issue.

I am thinking I should email support and ask them if they can come in with what I think might be called remote computer control to see if they can figure it out. Even if a factory reset fixes it that is not the proper way to go about fixing issues as my factory reset list of to-do items takes well over 10 minutes to complete.

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+++ In the past +++ Andrew with PG Music has suggested using safe mode to test if the Return to Factory Settings" may solve your issue.

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1. Close Band-in-a-Box.
2. Add a file called safemode.txt to the Preferences folder. (contents of the file doesn't matter)
3. Boot Band-in-a-Box, and you should see red text confirming that it is in "safe mode".
This just means it is running at factory settings. You can do a test to see if the problem happens, and then you can close Band-in-a-Box and delete the file and you won't have made any changes to your settings.


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Thanks Jim.

I did what you said and got it to work so it says safe mode when it come up.

It does set the font to 70 every time it comes up. While in safe mode I tried changing it to 200 but it gets ignored and forces it to 70 on the next start of a song which I would expect.

I am thinking I should probably contact them regardless. If they tell me to reset to factory settings I assume they don't have a solution and are too busy to investigate. But on the other hand they might want to resolve it and appreciate my sacrificing my time to allow them to do so as my guess is that could take longer than doing a factory reset and putting all my parameters back in. I think I will point them to this thread and see what they say.

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Do you have any custom font or scaling settings in Windows settings - display or accessibility? It might be related to that somehow.


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Hi Andrew,

I reset my Gmail to large font as default. Other than that nothing special. I run everything in windows as normal.

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