backup files not hidden in 3.5 version
In version 3.5, when I open a file, the "All Supported Files" option appears first and not the "Musescore Files" option, so all backup files that are supposed to be hidden are displayed first. This was not the case in previous editions.
What can I do to prevent them from appearing every time I try to open a regular file?
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Right click inside the open file dialogue and deselect "Show hidden files"?
In reply to Right click inside the open… by kuwitt
I don't think this helps or exists in MuseScore's file dialog
New 3.5 backup files are all created in a hidded ".mscbackup" folder though, so won't 'clutter' that File > Open dialog any longer
In reply to I don't think this helps or… by Jojo-Schmitz
Here what I get via right click:
In reply to Here what I get via right… by kuwitt
Perhaps but that is changing the OS setting, and is not what you want: we want to be able to easily access MuseScore backup files.
And several users on this forum have already explained why they need/want to see hidden files at OS level, independently of MuseScore.
No, really when the drop down says "All supported files" we want to see all supported files without any other setting interfering.
We just need that "All supported files" is not the default.
In reply to Perhaps but that is changing… by frfancha
Maybe indeed "MuseScore files" could be the default setting.
But I don't understand your other response. If you change the setting of "hidden files" inside the open file dialogue of MuseScore, it doesn't take effect to other application of the OS, so for example with your file manager you'll still see backup files.
In reply to Here what I get via right… by kuwitt
That's not the dialog that shows on Windows (7) in MuseScore's File > Open
Is it Linux?
In reply to That's not the dialog that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Correct - OpenSuse Leap, MS 3.5. Maybe it differs with other OS?
In reply to Correct - OpenSuse Leap, MS… by kuwitt
It does indeed
In reply to I don't think this helps or… by Jojo-Schmitz
I think that suggestion @frfancha just said is the best choice for everyone. Display the backup files but not by default option. The default option must be "All musescore files" as always use to be.
I'm not on MuseScore 3.5 yet, but indeed if both "All files" and "MuseScore files" are possible options, all files being the new option showing backup files as well (which is sometimes good and necessary), the default ought to be "MuseScore files", that's quite obvious.
Hopefully that has been overlooked in 3.5 and will be corrected soon.
In reply to I'm not on MuseScore 3.5 yet… by frfancha
It is not "all files" it's "All supported files" and in 3.5 a backup file became supported as well.
"MuseScore files" as a default would exclude all MusicXML/MIDI-files for example, while all of those have been included in all previous versions as well.
Starting with 3.5 the backup files are no longer kept in the same folder, so feel free to delete existing backup scores (or move them into that mscbackup folder yourself) as they are remnants of previous versions.
In reply to It is not "all files" it's … by jeetee
IMHO if I understand it correct, the confusion is, that backup files have not been displayed with MS 3.4.2 but are display with MS 3.5.0. Of course it's possible to sort them in the file open dialogue by selecting detail view and selecting "type" as sort order.
The selection field/adjustment of my screenshot seems only to work with Linux and only with MS 3.5 but not with MS 3.4.2, as far I can see.
So actual is the confusion in my opinion, that backup files of scores created before MS 3 are displayed in the same folder. Maybe in future there will be less confusion about it.
But I'm "d'accord", that the selection of native formats wouldn't display musicxml or midi files.
In reply to IMHO if I understand it… by kuwitt
Indeed, they weren't shown in the 3.4.2 open dialog as 3.4.2 (and previous) didn't support opening that type of file directly.
3.5 now does.
In reply to It is not "all files" it's … by jeetee
Midi files aren't MuseScore files either. MuseScore is able to import them, which is very good, but they must not be shown by default.
In reply to Midi files aren't MuseScore… by frfancha
Why not? Been that way ever since
In reply to Why not? Been that way ever… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, for lot of reasons that I'm sure you know well.
Just one of them if really necessary: you don't open midi files, you import them. And (big) part of that import is guessing work which leads to score sometimes quite far of the original.
Showing midi files in the basic open file option is misleading.
"Opening" a midi file should either be done through open=>change 'type' to "all supported files", or from a another menu entry "import", if you want to keep a one click option to open them.
In reply to Well, for lot of reasons… by frfancha
Every file except mscz and maybe mscx are imports. And even those are, when comming from a downrev version.
MuseScore never had an import menu for those