My Score Didn't Save but I Saved it
I don't know if I am looking in the wrong place to open my score, but before I exited my score I clicked the save button and it closed smoothly without asking me to save because I had just saved it. the thing is, I can't find it, it was an autosave file because my PC crashed constantly. It was a completely finished score and I don't think it is lost, but I don't know if it ended up somewhere other than my documents our something, it isn't showing up on the page that comes up when I open the application either.
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If you have Musescore 2 there will be a folder somewhere on your machine (on MacOS in the documents folder) called Musescore2. In there is subfolder (or subsubfolder) called scores. Look there first.
Musescore also saves backup files which are made invisible. But how to make invisible files visible on an Apple machine I have never been able to figure out. The handbook should tell you where to look for them.
In reply to If you have Musescore 2 there by azumbrunn
omg thanks!!!!!!! you saved my sheet i spend 3 hours on! thanksss!
Welcome Cryolophysis, see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/recovered-files
mentioned in a recent conversation https://musescore.org/en/node/137796
In reply to Welcome Cryolophysis, see: by Shoichi
I notated an entire work last night and today. After notating a few measures, I clicked "Save as..." and named the file etc. Over the hours that spent notating the score, I frequently would hit "Save" to make sure my changes would not be lost. Once I complete the score, I hit "Save" again for good measure and closed MuseScore. When I opened the program again to view the score, everything I had done was GONE except for the very first few measures that were there when I first saved and named the file. Why did it not save all of my edits, even when I kept telling it to "Save"?!?!? I have read your instructions on "recovered files" and they do not apply, as the program was not shut down abnormally. I also read the other link posted here and followed those instructions to no avail. Please help!!!
In reply to I notated an entire work last by Rachel_Layne
So first you saved and named it "a", than saved as and named it "b", then saved, saved, saved...?
Non on restart what file gets opened, a or b? Does the other have the full content?
In reply to So first you saved and named by Jojo-Schmitz
Named and saved as "a;" never was doing a "b." After I initially saved it as "a," I periodically chose "save" from the "file" drop-down menu to update the saved content as I worked. When I closed the file and re-opened it, the only things that had actually saved were what was initially on the page when I had originally done the "save as" command to name it.
However, after much searching, I was able to find a more recent copy of the document on my back-up harddrive! So, all is not lost, fortunately.
But, I wanted to test what may have gone wrong when I was saving it before... Just now I tried editing things in the score and then choosing "Save" from the "file" menu or by using the "ctrl+S" shortcut. Any time I do either of these things and then close the program, none of the changes are saved. However, if I click the picture of the floppy disk on the task bar, that does save changes. So, it seems there is maybe something wrong with the "save" command in the "file" menu and with the "ctrl+S" shortcut... Please see if there is some kind of bug and try to fix it. Thanks!
In reply to Named and saved as "a;" never by Rachel_Layne
Rachel are you using 2.0.3?
Save/Save As ... works like in other software. As said above you can try https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings
In reply to Named and saved as "a;" never by Rachel_Layne
Hmm, Save definitely work, as does Save As - we've all done both of these thousands of times. It's likely that somehow you aren't doing something correctly, but in order to understand what, we'd need to describe in more precise detail what you are doing.
Try the following:
1) File / Open, choose a score (and note what folder you are in)
2) make a change to the score - delete the contents of the first measure, for example
3) File / Save
4) quit MuseScore
5) restart MuseScore
6) File / Open, open that same score (and be sure you are looking in the same folder)
You change *will* be saved. The only case I've heard of where this would not be the case is if you try to do the save before you are finished making your change - like, if you are entering text, and you hit Save before you finish entering your text (ie, before hitting Esc or clicking elsewhere to leave edit mode). I imagine a similar thing might happen if you are in the middle of some other edit, like adjusting the shape of a slur or something, and you try to save before completing the operation. Maybe this is what you are seeing? But even so, the score is still saved - all work up until that incomplete edit will be there. Only that last thing you didn't finish doing will not be saved.
In reply to Named and saved as "a;" never by Rachel_Layne
correction... the floppy disk save button only works sometimes... When I save changes to files and then close them and then open them again later, it does not always have the most recent versions of the files that I had created. Either the save functions are very unreliable or I am doing something really wrong. Please help so that I do not have to waste so much time recreating lost work or searching frantically through my computer for where MuseScore might have hidden a more recent version of my work when I tried to save updates right where I had created the file in the first place. Sigh.
In reply to correction... the floppy disk by Rachel_Layne
Maybe you should check (Edit/Preferences...) the correct destination folder
In reply to correction... the floppy disk by Rachel_Layne
See my response above. In order to understand what is happening, we would need you to be extremely precise in describing what you are doing, step by step, so we can see where things are going wrong. In general, the save functions *do* work correctly, so my best guess is that you are trying to open an older version of a file in a different folder than the one you actually saved. Again, the more detail you give us about what you are doing, the better we can help you.
In reply to See my response above. In by Marc Sabatella
My daughter is having same problem. She is NOT DOING IT WRONG.
safed the file under save as musicforclass then continued working and hit save button periodically and I even saw her do this. Later when she logs in, the file is back to the original musicforclass, rather than what the file looked like when she hit save the last time!
Please help, my daughter spent 8 hours editing her score. BTW same thing happened to her essay using word.
In reply to My daughter is having same… by Glen Eyre
Probably what happened is that there was a crash at some point in the past, she elected to restore the file, but then did an ordinary "save" rather than a "save as" and didn't realize MuseScore was not saving this on top of the original file but instead was saving the restored file elsewhere. Depending on what OS she is on, it could be in any of several different places, but it's definitely there, wherever it was actually being saved. If she is on Windows 10, for instance, it's probably in the "virtual store" that Windows creates for situations like this. See for instance https://musescore.org/en/node/52116 and in particular the comment at the bottom of the page.
In reply to My daughter is having same… by Glen Eyre
Also, see:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/recovered-files
I also have had this problem. Did you find a fix?
In reply to I also have had this problem… by LordM00
See https://musescore.org/en/node/52116 and https://musescore.org/en/handbook-advanced-topics/recovered-files. Search your entire disk(s) for filenames ending in ".mscz" and ".mscz,"