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I've been reviewing and revising BIAB files created by an earlier member of the band - the original files may be as much as ten years old - and I've come across a few files with what I call orphaned bars.

In the Chord Sheet Window there are the normal chords in black on a cream background, and after the end of the song there is the usual grey section. When I play the song it runs through in the normal way, and then after the end (in bar 27 in the example I'm looking at) it jumps across an expanse of grey to two blank cream bars (at 98 and 99). [Now that I try this again, the current bar cursor doesn't jump from bar 27 across the gap to bar 98!].

I can't delete these bars using Edit=>Delete Bar(s), and although they don't seem to have any effect on the playback of the song, I'd rather remove them in case they come back and bite me later.

Any suggestions?

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Suggestions:

1. Double-check the Tag settings?

2. Edit, Unfold to one long chorus to see what happens. Be sure to make a copy of the song first.


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Thanks, Mat.

1. "Tag Exists" is blank.
2. "Unfold to one long chorus" fills up the gap, with bars 98 and 99 at the end.

The piece I'm looking at is "Sandu", which is a 12 bar blues, but played over a 2 x 12 bar cycle with two bar first and second endings.

I'd set it up to play 4 choruses made up of the 24 bar cycle, and although the 2nd, 3rd and 4th choruses are properly unfolded, the 1st is still represented as a ten-bar sequence with two alternative endings.

If I use Edit=>Fold to pack it up again, I'm still left with the orphaned bars.

It's probably of no consequence, but I have an ever-so-slightly obsessional nature...

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Are there Gray lines between these "orphan bars" and also everywhere there is a part marker?

If so, to get what you want to see, try going to Prefs and turn off "New Line with each Part Marker" feature.


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