Help with corrupted file?
Does anybody know a good way to try to recover a file that's suddenly been corrupted? Put in about ten hours on an original and I can't even open it. I tried to recover the hidden file, put I only came up with the bare skeleton that I started with. Any help at all would be appreciated, please. I know that some people here have looked at files and were able to fix an issue, so I'm hoping to have that luck. Thanks for reading.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| I_Dunno_Yet.mscz | 31.99 KB |
Comments
See https://musescore.org/en/node/54721
Not for this score though, that is broken beyond repair, see #271185: Scores corrupted beyond repair, containing nothing but zeros, and search for a backup, see https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
So what you're saying is that there's no getting it back?
In reply to So what you're saying is… by David Gage Grimsley
The file you attached here is beyond repair indeed, it contains nothing but zeroes
In reply to The file you attached here… by Jojo-Schmitz
Good morning/afternoon/night. Could you please repair this file if it is possible? My computer shut down abruptly because of an error, while I was working on it. And when I turned it on again, the file was corrupted.
I really liked where it was going, and I can not remember it ;(
I would really appreciate it if you could check it.
(English is not my first language btw; in case there are mistakes
In reply to Good morning/afternoon/night… by Lucas_Gashina
No, sorry, that file is broken beyond repair, same a further up
In reply to No, sorry, that file is… by Jojo-Schmitz
Is this file restorable?
In reply to Is this file restorable? by timmyd00
No
In reply to Good morning/afternoon/night… by Lucas_Gashina
Your file is corrupt and contains a lot of zeros, try to find a backup.
https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
You wrote:
I only came up with the bare skeleton that I started with.
Where exactly did you find that file, and Is that the only place you looked?
Consider an(y) other possibility mentioned here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
Hello! I seriously don't even know what happened to this, all the notes are messed up now and weird rests that I can't remove have been added?... Super confused, if anyone could help that'd be great!
In reply to Hello! I seriously don't… by korxdora
It's not clear what in particular you are finding to be "messed up" as we don't how it should look. But a couple of measures I see do indeed have an extra beat or fraction of a beat in them, as if you inserted it using the special insert mode. To now delete it, select it and hit Ctrl+Delete.
Hi,
Can someone tell me if this one is beyond repair as well?
In reply to Hi, Can someone tell me if… by eranwbb
That one isn't broken, but a (file-format-wise) "valid" but completely empty score (no instruments in it).
It seems to indicate coming from https://musescore.com/user/35357555/scores/8270102 which is a 404 for me, either because it is a private score, or because it no longer exists.
In reply to That one isn't broken, but a… by jeetee
Yes, I uploaded it to see if maybe it will be fine online (and also it's private), but it's still blank.
Anyway, I'm really confused, I wrote a whole piece but then one day I just restarted my computer and when I opened the score again it was blank, how could that happen?
In reply to Yes, I uploaded it to see if… by eranwbb
See How to recover a backup copy of a score
In reply to Hi, Can someone tell me if… by eranwbb
If not disabled, Musescore has an autosave option. Then you have a chance.
On Windows there is in your score directory a hidden subdirectory named ".mscbackup". Try to open it, either in the Win Explorer options activate s.t. like 'show hidden files' or add in the Explorer .mscbackup in the address field.
There you should find a file. It should be named ".Trecilloso Chapter 2.mscz," with a dot at the beginning and a comma at the end.
Rename this by removing the dot an the comma and open it with Musescore. You can find at least the state of the prior save command.
In reply to If not disabled, Musescore… by HildeK
I found it but it's blank as well
In reply to I found it but it's blank as… by eranwbb
What a shame! Do it again :-)
I assume you've never saved the score ...
In reply to What a shame! Do it again :-… by HildeK
If I never had saved it, the file wouldn't even exist... I've been working on it for months, believe me I saved it :(
In reply to If I never had saved it, the… by eranwbb
If you saved it more than once, a backup will exist, from the penultimate session
In reply to If not disabled, Musescore… by HildeK
@HildeK: Autosave and the flles in .mscbackup are not related to one another at all.
In reply to Autosave and the flles in … by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you; I didn't know that.
How about this one y'all?
What's the problem with this file?
In reply to How about this one y'all?… by eranwbb
It is entirely empty, 0 bytes
And, judging from the filename, an autosave copy, a recovery attempt after a crash
In reply to How about this one y'all?… by eranwbb
I can not imagin what you are doing.
E.g. your Trecilloso Chapter 2.mscz contains only a few lines as shown in the attachment.
If I create a now score with only a treble clef and the standard 32 measures, it has mor than 650 lines!
Please check Edit/Preferences... where are the folders for scores, styles etc. located.
In reply to I can not imagin what you… by HildeK
A basically empty Score, as @jeetee already mentioned, no Instruments, so no staves, no measures, so no notes. Just a score header, some metadata
In reply to How about this one y'all?… by eranwbb
Can anyone fix this?
In reply to Can anyone fix this? by Fujin-chan
There is no "MuseScore Experiment - 3.mscx" contained within the mscz file, so no score.info.
Look for a backup.
In reply to There is no "MuseScore… by Jm6stringer
I don't think I have a backup. Does this mean I can't get my work back?
In reply to I don't think I have a… by Fujin-chan
In the folder where the score was located, there is also a hidden folder called ".mscbackup". There is a possibility that you can find a (hidden) backup of your score.
You may need to change your operating system options to see it.
In reply to In the folder where the… by HildeK
How do you find the hidden backup????
In reply to How do you find the hidden… by Fujin-chan
I can't find it, nor change the settings.
In reply to How do you find the hidden… by Fujin-chan
Use the file browser that comes with your OS - Explorer in Windows, or Finder on macOS - and set it to show hidden files. If you need help with that do a web search for “how to show hidden files on Windows” (or macOS).
Once you enable the display of hidden files, you will see the .mscbackup folder underneath the folder containing your actual score.
In reply to Use the file browser that… by Marc Sabatella
Ah! Thank you. I fixed it.
Hello! Can anyone help me try to recover this file too? It says that this file cannot be opened when I saved it properly
In reply to Hello! Can anyone help me… by timminator021
This file is not recoverable. You may have tried to save it properly but somewhere between MuseScore creating and closing the MSCZ file and your operating system saving it properly it got mangled or, more, likely simply didn't get completely saved. Most of this files consists of "00".
In reply to Hello! Can anyone help me… by timminator021
A *.mscz file is a zipped file. You can open it with e.g. 7-zip. Among other things, it mainly contains a relatively large *.mscx file that can be read by an ASCII editor. This *.mscx file contains all the information about your score.
But yours didn't contain a *.mscx file, so it's beyond repair.