Working with MuseScore 3 in macOS 10.14.6, colleague's mac only supports MuseScore 2.

• Jan 20, 2023 - 00:30

Hi, (my first ask in the forums!)

I am working in macOS 10.14.6, but unwilling to progress to the next main OS. So I am currently limited to MuseScore 3. I am working with an arranger whose system limits him to MuseScore 2. His version would not open a *.mscz file that I edited in MuseScore 3 from his Musescore 2 file. I don't know why it could not open a *.mscz file from a later version.

I volunteered to also download MuseScore 2, but when I checked here in downloadable MuseScore (I guess since now 4 is the main version) only various builds of MuseScore 3 were available.

I shared with him the MuseScore *.mscz file, the generated/exported PDF and musicXML files as a way to finesse the problem, but I don't know yet if that will do it. I said that I would ask here in the forum. Would exporting as *.mscx (uncompressed) work?

This guy only a few days a week ago downloaded MuseScore 2. I have asked him where he got his version 2, but I wonder if here there is a link/resource that can get me MuseScore 2 -- AND -- would it work in macOS 10.14.6?

And if there are any other points that I missed here, let me know, please.

Best,

--B.

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• Jan 20, 2023 - 00:40

I see in the support section that someone had an analogous problem, and a solution using .mxl export. There is a problem opening the .mxl back into 3 with some formatting, but I haven't checked it all. But it does open.

I guess I need MuseScore2 to verify the guy's difficulty.

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• Jan 20, 2023 - 01:50

I solved my own problem, we WE-Transfered MuseScore 2 and both successfully live on my mac now.

I opened the .mxl in MuseScore 2 and saved it as a *.mscz there and switched my default opening of that file type to version 2. So, all is good.

However, any other comments, advice, are welcome. Thanks!

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