You are correct. For a BIG score:
Finding stuck notes.
1) Edit->Find...->By Category->Hanging Note Tie
Repeat at beginning of each staff until found.
If not play each staff solo until you find the offending track. Then, one of the following should fix the problem:
2) Play from various endings until you isolate the problem.
3) Put a note at the very end of the track. Select it. Move it up and down with control+shift+up|down. If a tie into this note appears, you found the pitch! Now look for tied notes with this pitch.
<end Finding stuck notes>
Edit->Find...->By Category->Hanging Note Tie (aka Ctrl-F)
won't always work. Example:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Instrument|Name:"Flute"|Patch:73|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127|Pos:8
|Bar|Style:MasterRepeatOpen|SysBreak:Y
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:0^
|Bar
|Ending|Endings:1
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:0
|Bar|Style:MasterRepeatClose
|Ending|Endings:2
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
This seems trivial but flow on some pieces are non-trivial.
I have seen some pieces where there is a tie into some endings but a slur into others. A quick way to simulate this is:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Instrument|Name:"Flute"|Patch:73|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127|Pos:8
|Bar|Style:MasterRepeatOpen|SysBreak:Y
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:0^
|Bar
|Ending|Endings:1
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:0
|Bar|Style:MasterRepeatClose
|Ending|Endings:2
|Chord|Dur:4th,Grace|Pos:0,1^|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End