Musescore 3 keeps crashing
I have looked up multiple posts reporting this issue, and tried all the methods suggested, including:
*open from mac terminal
*double click score to open
*uninstall and reinstall
Given that there have been many reports on this, and based on what I saw, most of the posters didn't get their problem resolved, I wonder if the dev team has any plan to fix this.
Technically, I don't think any score should to able to crash the application. If it does, it's only saying that Musescore 3 is buggy and not robust enough.
I'm reverting back to Musescore 2 and retyping my entire score. I hope this buy can be resolved soon.
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Uninstall and reinstall rarely fixes such issues with MuseScore, reverting to factory settings much more often so, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings.
But also try 3.5RC
In reply to Uninstall and reinstall… by Jojo-Schmitz
How do you try 3.5 RC on Mac?
In reply to How do you try 3.5 RC on Mac? by Danny Z. Lin
By installing it...
You'd get it from https://musescore.org/en/3.5rc
This issue was reported a few time from other user last days. At least for one of these user it worked as mentioned by using 3.5rc.
In reply to This issue was reported a… by kuwitt
Unfortunately it's not working for me. I'd finished a complete orchestral score with no problems. I'd been working on a new one for a few weeks. Today I began experiencing continual crashes, just playing the file that worked flawlessly yesterday. So I'm not sure what changed between yesterday and today. I tried resetting the preferences and installing 3.5rc, but no luck. I've attached the MuseScore file; maybe there's something wrong with the file itself.
In reply to Unfortunately it's not… by pxrcei8sgw
I think that's the problem! As I progressed on the piece, I exported it as an MusicXML file. So I loaded the latest XML into MuseScore and that played all the way through without incident. So I'd bet there's a corruption in my MSCZ file.
In reply to Unfortunately it's not… by pxrcei8sgw
That score works just fine here, MuseScore 3.4.2 and 3.5RC on Windows 7
It also got last saved with 3.5RC
In reply to Unfortunately it's not… by pxrcei8sgw
The score seems to be okay, I can open it with Linux without any problems.
I don't have really experiences with Mac, but it seems to be a new issue, it came up several times the last days. I'd never heard of it before.
Maybe you could check, if you boot your Mac in safe mode and reboot again, as mentioned for example here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3769066?
In reply to The score seems to be okay,… by kuwitt
" Today I began experiencing continual crashes, just playing the file that worked flawlessly yesterday."
Indeed, this score hangs and ends up looping/crashes around mid-score more or less. This was due to a bunch of unexpected ties in the Violas instrument (antepenultimate instrument) measures 71-72 - image below.
One was no longer in the right place, or had been reduced, and another one was double (I don't know how you did this exactly). In short, by deleting them, and putting them back correctly, the playback/score works again.
See your score now: Reservation_Road 1.mscz
In reply to Indeed, this score hangs and… by cadiz1
Brilliant! Thank you so much! I kept mistakenly adding a slur instead of a tie and I thought I had deleted them. They must have piled up and I never caught it.