Musescore crashed... and I lost everything, 1000's files
Musescore crashed this morning.
I uninstalled, re-installed etc, rebooted, the Tut.
I am 62 yrs and still has at least 15 yrs music education ahead of me. COMPLETELY dependent on Musescore for my work. Lessons, arrangements, compositions, comms with other mus-teachers, etc. Daily between 1 and 6 hrs working with MS.
Now lost EVERYTHING. Thousands and thousands of files from the past 12 yrs of work.
All my files are in format '.FILENAME.mscz,' and cannot open. It states 'which program do you want to open this file' with no reference to musescore.
What to do, please?
Louise
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A crash of MuseScore would never ever loose scores, except maybe the one open at the time of the crash. The are all still at the same place as before the crash
These '.FILENAME.mscz,' are MuseScore backup files. The normal MuseScore files are usually directly next to those, in the same folder or, as of 3.5(?) one level up.
In reply to A crash of MuseScore would… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi Jojo-Schmitz
Yes they usually do sort next to the backup files. Not this time though. I see that only files which I pdf'd have retained. Odd.
Should I maybe download an older version? I think I did have 3.5...
In reply to Hi Jojo-Schmitz Yes they… by LouiseBV
Go for 3.6.2, the latest
Once you have sorted out the immediate problem, you need to find a way of saving all of your important work somewhere else. Preferably really somewhere else, so if your house burns down while you are away you can get them back. There are various online storage services you can use (sorry, can't make any specific recommendations, because I use my webserver, which is on a different continent, so if this one unexpectedly subducts...)
In reply to Once you have sorted out the… by Imaginatorium
Dropbox, box.com, OneDrive, Googledrive, iCloud, to name a few
In reply to Once you have sorted out the… by Imaginatorium
Hi Imagainatorium
I saved it all on my external hard drive. However, it appears to be the computer's idea. Even the backed-up harddrive files read like this.
How on earth would I 'sort out the immediate problem', as you state, please?
In reply to Hi Imagainatorium I saved it… by LouiseBV
There's no way whatsoever that crash if MuseScore would have removed any file from an external hard drive.
MuseScore does not delete files
In reply to Once you have sorted out the… by Imaginatorium
+1
This week I had a catastrophic computer failure. In my mind, my most recent online backup to Google Drive was 2-3 weeks ago. As it turns out, it was actually February 8.
Luckily, (after 72 straight hours of data recovery) my local techs were able to retrieve my files and move them over to a new machine. Not cheap, but I gladly paid for the service. I promptly backed all my crucial data to the cloud.
In reply to +1 This week I had a… by toffle
Most cloud providers also have a sync app for doing that automatically. GoogleDrive certainly does, box.com and Microsoft OneDrive too.
An additional backup is needed too though, to prevent accidental deletes.
In reply to +1 This week I had a… by toffle
Hey toffle, because I think these things are an interesting learning experience, what kind of catastrophic failure did you have?
In reply to Hey toffle, because I think… by bobjp
@bobjp
I wish I knew what happened. I was in the middle of adding a repeat sign in a piece when things froze up. After that, I couldn't get past the BIOS screen. The techs were able to read the drive, but at about 1/1000 of the normal speed. It was a mid-range ASUS, and apparently that model is prone to failure after four years. The real learning experience was discovering that my backup was three months old, not weeks.
@jojo I've tried to set my Google Drive up to automatically run backups, but apparently I'm challenged in that regard.
In reply to @bobjp I wish I knew what… by toffle
I'm not talking about taking backups om a more or less regular and scheduled base (which is needed too), but about syncing files, actually entire directories. That way the files are in the cloud within minutes after each change.
I know for sure, because I use it myself, that box.com and also OneDrive does this. I'm pretty sure GoogleDrive can do that too.
In reply to I'm not talking about taking… by Jojo-Schmitz
You've seen my posts. You know I'm not that smart.
In reply to I'm not talking about taking… by Jojo-Schmitz
Google Drive definitely does this, I rely on this often. And OneDrive has bailed out me and many others I know, countless times.
If you're on Windows, you don't even need to be "smart" to use OneDrive - it's enabled already by default. You'd have to be "smart" to know how to turn it off - but not smart enough to realize it's a bad idea unless you're also smart enough to run your own backup service :-)
In reply to @bobjp I wish I knew what… by toffle
With Google Drive, you don't need to set it up to do backups - it backs up everything in it automatically. You just have to install it, and then actually use it - save your files to the Google Drive folder instead of your regular Document folder. Although I gather it's possible to get it to do that too. But that seems more complicated and a bit scary to me.
In reply to @bobjp I wish I knew what… by toffle
Just curious... was the drive an SSD?
In reply to Just curious... was the… by Ibdense
"Just curious... was the drive an SSD?"
If you're referring to my issue, no; it was a 1tb hard drive. My replacement computer has 500G SSD.
In reply to "Just curious... was the… by toffle
Thanks
To be 100% clear: no crash of MsueScor,e no anything that MsueScore could ever do under any circumstances, will ever delete even one of scores. not ever. Has never happened, will never happen. Your files are exactly on right there on your hard drive in whatever folder you saved them to. So, the first question for you, what is the exact pathname of the folder you believe you saved your files to?
If you aren't seeing them, then you are simply looking in the wrong folder. The trick will be remembering what folder you actually did save them to. But I absolutely promise you they are still there.