Score Not Opening

• Oct 18, 2024 - 05:02

So I'd finished working on a project for a while, and I went to save it. It was my first save, so I named it and everything and pressed save(with the intention of saving to the cloud). For whatever reason, afterwards musescore didnt close, so I clicked the x to close it, but it wouldn't close, so I left clicked and closed it using the taskbar. Now, opening the file it says "Your score cannot be opened. This score is invalid". I tried looking for a backup of it, but no backup was saved of it. I dont know what to do at all.

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 08:39

You can look in the following folders (Windows):

C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\cloud_scores
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\cloud_scores\.mscbackup
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Scores
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Scores\.mscbackup
C:\Users\{YourUserAccount}\Documents\MuseScore4\Cloud_Scores

If you close Musescore without saving, don't be surprised if you can't open it again!
Why not save it to your local hard disk?
This is more reliable and you can make a second save in the cloud as a backup.

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 11:49

Why not save it to your local hard disk?

Good point!
Nowadays hard disk drives have enormous capacities at lower prices compared to years ago. Terabyte solid-state drives are also available. Not to mention USB sticks which have surpassed their early capacities of mere megabytes.

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 12:25

My smallest and oldest USB stick has 128 MByte. Even on that, you can store more than hundred Musescore files. And the smallest devices you can buy today have 2 or 4 GByte. It is usually 64 GByte.
So it is absolutely not a question of capacity ...

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 12:54

True, but I have read in the forum about people running out of disk space or of saving to the cloud to preserve space on their computer.
With today's available capacities, even making a periodic disk image backup of something as comprehensive as the entire operating system drive is good practice.

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 23:18

I'll check these when I get home.

But the weird thing about the situation is that I DID save it, as I said in the original post.

And, if it were not to have saved at all then why would it show up as a score available to open in musescores main scores

What happens that it says the score is invalid, which I've never seen before.

Also, I save to the cloud because I use musescore on multiple devices, and it's just easier that way.

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• Oct 20, 2024 - 03:29

You wrote:
What happens that it says the score is invalid,

For a way of finding an invalid cloud score locally, see:
https://musescore.org/en/node/368521
also:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/18622
especially the part about re-locating out of the cloud scores folder any score you may find located therein. This way, MuseScore won't be looking into the cloud (online) and finding that "invalid" score all the time.

FWIW...
The handbook states:
"A local copy is also automatically saved on your computer."
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/opening-and-saving-scores#Save_to_t…

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