Musescore 3 file won't open in Musescore 4
I recently updated to Musescore 4 and have a few scores from Musescore 3 that are unfinished. However, when I try to open these scores the entire software freezes. Does anyone know if there's a fix to this?
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In reply to Does this happen with all … by the_mnbvcx
It seems to be happening with all my recent ones. However, I opened one from a few years back today and it seemed to work. I'm using it on windows 11. I uploaded one of the files that were affected.
In reply to It seems to be happening… by eliza.langer2003
No idea. Opens on my system.
In reply to No idea. Opens on my system. by bobjp
An irrelevant and snarky answer. Judging from my experience and Googling, plenty of people open MuseScore 4 and MuseScore 3 files are nowhere to be seen. You should not have to jump through any hoops to open them AUTOMATICALLY in MuseScore 4, and nobody should have to read inane comments like yours.
In reply to An irrelevant and snarky… by DiegoInSeneca
It is precisely relevant and not the least snarky. It works on overwhelmingly most people's systems: that indicates that OP's complaint is something happening on their computer and not a problem with the software. Your comment is, in fact, both irrelevant and snarky ... and responding to a two-year-old post (making it still more irrelevant).
All most users have to do to open MuseScore 3 files is to click File / Open and select the file from its location on their harddrive.
Based on your other posts, I suspect that the installation of MuS 4.4.4 has failed and that it's still trying to run an earlier version.
In reply to It seems to be happening… by eliza.langer2003
Opens for me too. Also Windows 11. It is s 4.01 score though, not from a previous version (well, it does stem from a previous version but meanwhile got saved with 4.0.1)
None of my scores show up in MuseScore 4. I don't know if I should copy the scores from the MuseScore 3 Score file and paste them into MuseScore 4 or not. To Eliza's point, any way to fix this? I am very excited to start using this. I have a MacBook Pro, v. 12.6. Thanks!
In reply to None of my scores show up in… by ChipT
I am afraid that is completely unrelated to this problem here - and not a bug at all. MS3 and MS4 use different default folders for their files, thus they don't see each other's files.
So either you modify the settings in preferences and change the default folder or you literally copy the MS3 files to the MS4 folder (which would be my recommendation for the time being, a file once saved in MS4 cannot be opened again with MS3, at least not easily).
In reply to I am afraid that is… by the_mnbvcx
Scores that were made in Musescore v4 do not open in Musecore v3. One can copy them into Musecore v3's folder it makes no difference. So, quick question, how do you open a Musecore v4 score in Musescore v3. The reason I am asking is because I regret having downloaded Musecore v4 and much prefer Musecore v3, but unfortunately went and created a whole lot of scores in Musecore v4 already and want to revert back to Musecore v3 without losing my work.
In reply to Scores that were made in… by dimand
In Mu4 export as MusicXML, open that in M3
In reply to In Mu4 export as MusicXML,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you, JoJo. Unfortunately that is not working either. I exported as suggested and when I click on it now to open into Musecore v3 it does nothing at all. I am running Windows 10.
In reply to Thank you, JoJo. … by dimand
Please share it here, both the Mu4 .mscz and the MusicXML one
In reply to Please share it here, both… by Jojo-Schmitz
I ended up having to repair Musecore 3 in order to try and open it. It would appear that the moment one exports from Musecore4 to Musecore3 it causes Musescore3 to crash. You then do a quick repair, boot up for changes to take effect and then it will open the exported file, albeit with minus it's coloured fonts and proper chords etc.
In reply to I ended up having to repair… by dimand
No such problem for me. But then again I did that "repair Musecore 3" a while ago already.
In order to keep the colors, try opening the mscz with WinZip or 7Zip, extract the mscz and the mss, load both in MuseScore 3
In reply to No such problem for me. But… by Jojo-Schmitz
I will try that. Thank you so very much, JoJo for always responding so quickly. I still have to add the piano chord diagrams so am wondering how that will pan out, but we will see...... I am going to toss Musecore 4 as I find version 3 a lot more user-friendly menu-wise and faster to score in general. The version 4 also takes up way to much space and RAM. Have a super day further.