Score Invalid! Help!!
I've been working for hours and completed my score. When I went to open it the next day it says "Score Invalid". Please walk me through step by step to recover my score please!!!
And anything the company can do to prevent such problems from occurring so often would be great!
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See:
https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
and:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/recovered-files
"And anything the company can do to prevent such problems from occurring so often would be great!"
What you can do is this:
- Save a local copy on your own computer as well as a online copy on musescore.com
- Save early in your workflow, and save often
- Always have backup copies in two different places
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by DanielR
I save only locally. With autosave disabled it seems to work well, but I must not forget to save it regularly.
In reply to I save only locally. With… by Lucapersempre
I found that I was working the other way around, directly on the file in pCloud, after which it was synced to the local folder. Now I am working locally and after that it is synced to pCloud. Hopefully this will fix the problem. So far so good.
There is no such line "Score Invalid" in Musescore Studio code.
There is a line "This score is invalid" in Musescore Studio code.
If this is your case, here is the instruction for windows:
1. Press ⊞ Win + R
2. Copy/Paste: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4\cloud_scores
3. Press Enter
4. Look there for a file that might be called not_uploaded.mscz or something similar.
5. If you find something interesting, copy that file to another location and open from that new location
And for Mac:
1. Shift + Command (⌘) + G
2. Copy/Paste:
~/Library/Application Support/MuseScore/MuseScore4/cloud_scores
3. Press Enter
4. Look there for a file that might be called not_uploaded.mscz or something similar.
5. If you find something interesting, copy that file to another location and open from that new location
In reply to There is no such line "Score… by mercuree
There is nothing in cloud_scores.
Do you mind attaching the score here for us to take a look? Also you can attach diagnostic files: Go to menu Diagnostics -> Save diagnostic files.
Which version of MuseScore Studio do you use?
In reply to Do you mind attaching the… by krasko78
OS: macOS 15.1, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.4-243461245, revision: 2232670
In reply to OS: macOS 15.1, Arch.: x86… by Lucapersempre
Your score opens just fine here (4.4.4 / Windows 10)
In reply to . by cadiz1
My score opens fine to but I get the error when I try to save it. I save in a local file that is immediately synced to the cloudservice pCloud.
Disable autosave -> no luck
Disabling sync to pCloud: -> no error yet. I will finish my score, make a copy and then start sync again.
In reply to My score opens fine to but I… by Lucapersempre
Okay, then I don't know. I reopened your file, changed 2/3 things, saved as locally. No problem at all. Sorry, I'll pass.
In reply to My score opens fine to but I… by Lucapersempre
Your file has some errors - measures that are too long. But that should not prevent you from saving it. The file is corrected in the attachment. Maybe you can open it and save it?
By the way: If you remove the "_saving" part from *.mscz_saving, you can open the file and also post it.
In reply to Do you mind attaching the… by krasko78
Disabling autosave does not solve the problem.
In reply to Do you mind attaching the… by krasko78
Last upload: I had to change the extension to txt to be able to upload the mscz_saving file.
In reply to Last upload: I had to… by Lucapersempre
That score opens fine for me, I can make changes and I can save it. Unless your system has an uncommon setting that MuseScore just happens to not work well with, it looks very much like a problem with your system, not a MuseSCore-specific problem. Does your system/setup have anything different from the ordinary?
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.4-243461245, revision: 2232670
In reply to That score opens fine for me… by underquark
Apart from working with a cloud service there is nothing special (MacOS on iMac).
In reply to Apart from working with a… by Lucapersempre
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In reply to 'Apart from working with a… by cadiz1
https://www.pcloud.com
In reply to https://www.pcloud.com by Lucapersempre
Earlier, you said "Disabling sync to pCloud: -> no error yet. I will finish my score, make a copy and then start sync again."
Did disabling sync to the cloud allow you to save a local copy? Could you then open that local copy?. If Yes, then likely a cloud problem, if No then could be a local disc or other hardware problem.
In reply to https://www.pcloud.com by Lucapersempre
The diagnostics files show no problems saving locally but failed saves to pCloud. Sounds like a permissions issue to me. Try granting MuseScore permission to write to the pCloud drive. Unfortunately I am not a macOS user so I don't know how exactly it is done. You could probably ask pCloud support.
In reply to https://www.pcloud.com by Lucapersempre
I think your problem is that you open your score from pCloud in MU. This works but then MU is unable to save to pCloud (there is an error 409: failed to copy file) which again is probably a permission issue. Or you shouldn't be opening your score from pCloud in the first place: open your local copy instead, make changes, save to local copy, sync the local copy to pCloud.
In reply to I think your problem is that… by krasko78
That's indeed the case, see above
In reply to That's indeed the case, see… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ahhhh, so many branches in the thread. :) At least we can now say: "problem solved". :)