musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Clicking "Enable Staff Sharing" with no score open crashes program

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Description

Issue type

Crash or freeze

Description with steps to reproduce
  1. With no score open, go to "Score"
  2. On the Layout panel, click "Enable Staff Sharing"
  3. Program crashes
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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/166c8a6e-75e8-4688-a290-f292a94895d3

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

OS: macOS Tahoe (26.6.2), Arch.: arm64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 5.0.0-260909031, revision: github-musescore-musescore-8d6bbe9

Regression

No.

Operating system

MacOS Tahoe 26.2

Additional context

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