musescore 3.5.0 includes mscz files and moved files to different folders
I just downloaded 3.5.0 and when I open the folders they include duplicate files that begin with a period and end with "mscz,". I"ve never seen these types of files before. These don't appear in the file manager, but they do when I open a file when I'm in musescore. What's also strange is "mscz," files that were in a different subfolder have moved to the folder one level above them, so now they're in the wrong subfolders. This happened in about 20 folders and hundreds of files.
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These are backup scores and they existed ever since
MuseScore 3.5 now allows open them, without having to rename and make visible, this is a new feature.
In reply to These are backup scores and… by Jojo-Schmitz
There are hundreds of these things in my folders, and it's a cluttered mess. Can I make them go "invisible" again? I prefer the way it was before.
In reply to There are hundreds of these… by Kent Livezey
For each of my compositions I have a main folder, and in it I have a subfolder in which I keep all my older versions of the piece. So when I opened each main folder, I had only my most-recent version and the subfolder with the older versions presented (two things). With 3.5.0, the older "backup" versions have jumped into their main folders, so instead of having just my most-recent version in the main folder, I have about 20 to 80 backups in front of the most-recent one.
In reply to For each of my compositions… by Kent Livezey
Nothing jumped. They were there ever since
In reply to There are hundreds of these… by Kent Livezey
Delete them. Or move into a backup folder
In reply to There are hundreds of these… by Kent Livezey
You can make them "invisible" or "hidden" again. In Windows, un-check "Hidden Items" in the View tab of File Explorer.
In reply to You can make them "invisible… by bobjp
Thanks, but they don't show up in File Explorer; they show up only when I open files when in musescore. I'm going through the folders and deleting all the backups.
In reply to Thanks, but they don't show… by Kent Livezey
This a slight inconvenience of that new feature, but easy to avoid in the future with the new possibility to use a dedicated subfolder for these files.
I'm happily accepting that small inconvenience to get the benefit of easily opening a backup file whenever necessary.
In reply to This a slight inconvenience… by frfancha
Now that I know what they are and that I have the option of deleting them, it's no big deal.
In reply to There are hundreds of these… by Kent Livezey
For the record, though, these files are marked hidden are your OS should already be hiding them. If not, perhaps you turned on the display of hidden folders in your OS.
In reply to For the record, though,… by Marc Sabatella
They may get shown in the File > Open dialog regardless o beliew
In reply to They may get shown in the… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'd like to have a check box "show backup files" yes/no in the open file dialogue itself.
Independent of the "show hidden files" at OS level.
Independent because having to change the OS setting every time you need to open a backup file seems wrong design.
I know current behaviour of open file dialogue is to ALWAYS show backup files, that is "ok" but a bit too much.
In reply to I'd like to have a check box… by frfancha
Checkbox might not be possible when using native file dialogs, but a preference might be.
Workaround: instead of looking for all files MuseScore supports, look for mscz and mscx only
In reply to Checkbox might not be… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes you're right.
So we should have two file "open" menu item.
The normal one where the backup extension(s) is not included in the list, and a "open file or backup file" where it is.