Corrupted score
Hello everyone.
I've just lost my score which is an important exam that i needed to submit today. I've done all the recovery methods suggested but with zero success at all. I don't know what else to do. Please, if someone can help me, i will be forever in debt.
The score is an arrangement I've been working the last 3 weeks for my university.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Stella By Starlight.mscz | 47 KB |
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When you are working in Musescore 4 and save a project file, a copy of it is also saved to the .mscbackup folder in the same directory. This folder is hidden. To see it, you need to enable show hidden folders in the windows explorer settings
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files-0320fe58-…
After that, go to this folder, find a file in it that is similar in name to Stella By Starlight.mscz, copy it to another location and try to open
In reply to When you are working in… by ytsejam
Hey ytsejam, thanks a lot for answering.
I already tried to open my score from the recovery file, but it is corrupted as well. I'm wondering if it went all to just zeros, or if it is still recuperable :c
In reply to Hey ytsejam, thanks a lot… by gabo.outx
Share those here too and we can check. Or first try to unzip (mscz files are ZIP archives under the covers)
In reply to Share those here too and we… by Jojo-Schmitz
This is the recovery file, after removing the dot and the ~ from its name.
In reply to This is the recovery file,… by gabo.outx
I couldn't opened the file with winrar. It brought a similar error about corruption.
In reply to This is the recovery file,… by gabo.outx
All zeroes too :-(
That file is just 47 KB of zeroes, and as sich beyond repair
In reply to That file is just 47 KB of… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh my god U_U thanks a lot for trying, Jojo. It is the worst new of my life but at least i'm relief to know it is already beyond repair. Time to start crafting it again.
In reply to Oh my god U_U thanks a lot… by gabo.outx
And to create backups the next time round...
This is not the first time that both files (main and backup) contain zeros, raising questions about Musescore's saving strategy.
If backup is the same, why is it needed at all?
I see that Notepad++ has been struggling with the exact same problem for a long time. I wonder how they solved it.
In reply to This is not the first time… by ytsejam
Really? I use Notepad++ constantly and I love it!!! I've never had a problem with saving.
In reply to Really? I use Notepad++… by TheHutch
I've never had a problem with saving Musescore files.
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/13302/fix-corrupted-txt-f…
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4655