"save changes before closing" message
My MuseScore 3.6.2 for Mac when it comes to closing a file doesn't seem to differentiate between scores where I made changes and scores where I didn't, because when I want to close a score that I opened just to check something, without making any changes, I always get a message giving me the option of "saving/not saving changes made". I can't find a way to disable it in case of scores left untouched. Disabling the automatic saving in Preferences makes no difference.
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Opening a pre-3.6 score in 3.6 changes the score internally in any case, whether you accept the changes to the new fonts or not. If you don't want it changed at all, don't save.
In reply to Opening a pre 3.6 score in 3… by Jojo-Schmitz
So if I don't want that message to reappear I just have to save that one time, replacing the old score with the new 3.6 one. Thanks a lot.
In reply to So if I don't want that… by Annalalina
Yes. Downside: opening it with a pre-3.6 MuseScore now shows a warning that the score had been saved with a new version, but just hitting "Ignore" and it loads and looks as it did before
In reply to Yes. Downside: opening it… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have wondered about this, and if getting things wrong can lead to loss of files. I sometimes open MS files to edit them, and sometimes I just want to look and don't change anything. Then when the message pops up asking if I want to save I'm not sure whether I need to or not.
Generally this isn't a problem, and now that I know that there's an asterisk next to a file which has been edited I can be more certain. Also if I explicitly save a file with a new name I can sort problems out later, though I might need to check which file I really wanted.
I do, however, have - or rather appear not to have - one file which I thought I was working on, but which I now can't find. I have worked over several machines, so it's possible that there is a copy on one of them, but right now it seems that the file might have been deleted or not saved. The extra warning messages may actually not be too helpful. I hope that this issue has only affected one score.
One thing which might now be useful is a batch updater for scores befoe a certain date. Many of the recent scores are updated with the new Leland font on opening, but if that makes sense for all files, it could be useful to have all the "older" files in a folder, and then do a batch update of all those files to a new folder. Then the user could decide whether to keep the older files, or delete them.
I'm still looking for my "missing" file.
In reply to I have wondered about this,… by dave2020X
FWIW, if you immediately hit Undo after opening an older file, then the one change that was made on import - the act of having marked it as imported - gets undone. No more asterisk, no more reminder on close. I'm getting into that habit. It's nice, because often with these files I don't want to make changes but might do so without thinking, and now if I get the reminder, I know it's because I really did make a change somewhere.
Anyhow, nothing about this could in any way whatsoever result in a file being deleted. MuseScore doesn't delete files.
In reply to FWIW, if you immediately hit… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Mark Sabatella. Great tip.