Musecore 4 File Corrupted
If you are reading this, I hope you are doing well
One fine morning I opened my score and it read, "(File Name) is corrupted" I clicked ignore thinking it would load back my score, but it failed, just the normal screen you have when your score is shown, but there was no score, just an empty box. The previous night when I transported documents from Musecore 3 to Musecore 4 (Alpha Version), I made edits to my score, and they are gone, my entire progress is gone.
I went back to the old version, and it did not let me because I made an edit on a newer version and to "refer to the website for more information" or something. But the starting screen, when I search up my score, I see the notes, I see the things I worked on, it's just corrupted, it is there, mocking me.
I do realize it is my fault for working on it in an "experimental version", but I would highly appreciate if there were something that can be done, thanks y'all!
*Attached is my score, if it is visible, let me know, Thanks!
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| A blossom in the dusk.mscz | 1.97 MB |
Comments
Nothing wrong with trying experimental builds, but are you saying you saved over the MuseScore 3 version rather than saving it as a new copy? That's something you'll want to avoid even when MuseScore 4 isn't experimental anymore - best to keep the original MuseScore 3 version in the future, justg in case you have any other reason to need to access it in MuseScore 3.
Meanwhile, you don't say what OS you are on, but if it's Windows, unless you disabled OneDrive, that's always the easy way to get back previous versions of any file.
But in this case, it's not so bad. An MSCZ file is just a ZIP archive containing the actual score (MSCX) and other miscellaneous files. When I extracted the MSCX file, opened it, and saved it again as MSCZ, it worked fine. Not sure if anything was lost, but anyhow, here's something.
In reply to Nothing wrong with trying… by Marc Sabatella
Style settings might have gone lost in the process, as those are in a separate file in the 4.x mscz format
In reply to Nothing wrong with trying… by Marc Sabatella
I will try that next time when I make the transport! Thanks, about that!
I did have Windows and did recover the previous versions, but they did not recover them at all.
And oof, all gone, but thank you for taking the time out of your day to help!
Hello, I hope its ok for me to use this thread for my question since it is a simmilar problem.
I have a corrupted file. It does load, but I seem to be running into more problems with it (notes missing and similar stuff).
I do not have a "Show details" option that would allow me to try and fix it myself.
It indeed was a former Musescore 3 file, but i did save it as a new one after work.
I have two more that seem to have the same problem
In reply to Hello, I hope its ok for me… by mitomatija
The missing drtails button is being worked on, but meanwhile, you can export your score to MusicXML, import into MuseScore, and use the "show details" button there. A nice side benefit - you can leave the that window open while you fix the problems in MuseScore 4.
In reply to The missing drtails button… by Marc Sabatella
My MuseScore 4 crashes when I export my score to MusicXML, and as there is no "Show Details" button in musescore 4, is there any other way?
In reply to My MuseScore 4 crashes when… by Dan_The_Man
export your score to musicxml and then send it through musescore three and click show details