Cannot read file
Earlier today I was editing a score, and after closing out of it and reopening it later, the file was unreadable. I tried to locate a backup, but the closest one to now was from four days ago. I've done a good 4+ hours of work on it since then. Is there anything I can do?
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Attach your score, every once in a while it can be fixed.
In reply to Attach your score, every… by mike320
done
The first file is the file that cannot be read, the second is the autosave with much less progress
In reply to The first file is the file… by Vernon W.
The first one is unusable unfortunately. After the header it's full of nothing.
There appears to be a bug in MuseScore that makes this happen occasionally. Since no one knows how to make it happen it is impossible to track down the bug.
Perhaps if we gather some info from people who have this happen to them would help. I see this was created using Version 2.1 and Windows.
What version of windows did you use?
When you closed out of MuseScore did it offer to save the file or had you already done that?
Do you have autosave turned on in preferences? How often?
One last chance to recover a newer file would be to look for hidden files on your computer that were created during your last session. The ones to look for will start with random numbers and letters followed by .tmp
In reply to The first file is the file… by Vernon W.
OK... this score is unreadable and unrecoverable.
There may still be hope, though.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
which explains how to open the 'Last saved version'.
Another possible location:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/recovered-files
Regards.