I Can't Save My Scores- I USED to be able to
I've been using MuseScore for a few years now and I love it!
Suddenly, this school year, I can't save anything. I'm getting this message: "You don't have permission to save in this location. Contact the administer to obtain permission."
I contacted my administer. He tried several different ways to allow me to save, to no avail. I am going about saving the same way I always did - also to no avail. What should I do?
Thank you.
Comments
maybe a reboot fixe this? I've seen this happening (both the problem and the reboot fixing it)
In reply to maybe a reboot fixe this? I… by Jojo-Schmitz
My IT dept closed and opened the program, uninstalled and reinstalled the program, AND gave me a newer laptop.
In reply to My IT dept closed and opened… by GollyGee
Did it help? Reinstalling MuseScore rarely fixes anything, reverting to factory settings much ore often...
In reply to Did it help? by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh, sorry, No None of those things helped.
If this isn't your computer, you are out of luck. If whoever owns the computer allows it, try bringing a flash drive, external hard drive, micro SD card or whatever with you and save to that.
There is also a 'save online' button that will save a score to your online musescore.com profile.
In reply to If this isn't your computer,… by Laurelin
The laptop belongs to my school district, but is issued to me. My IT dept helps whenever we need it and puts through all needed admissions. And yes, I can use jump drives.
I tried SAVE ONLINE. There was a lot to go through (copyright, use privileges, etc. I just write simple arrangements that suit my elementary band.
It did save to a flashdrive! I didn't fully test this- like can I edit, change key, do everything that I can do with the basic, free, wonderful MuseScore that I've been using. So I will use your suggestion for the time being- Thanks!
But if anyone can still figure out why I can't just save within the MuseScore program, please pipe in!
Thanks!
Are you allowed to save any files at all - even from different apps?
In MuseScore, menu item: Edit -> Preferences... in the Folders area, where does it show your Scores being saved to?
In reply to Are you allowed to save any… by Jm6stringer
Yes, I can save normally. And all my scores are saved to MuseScore. At least they were! They don't seem to be there now. But that is probably bcs my IT dept uninstalled and then reinstalled the program. We did save all my scores to OneDrive before doing that, though. I'm still not sure if I can manipulate the scores if they are in OneDrive and not MuseScore.
Going about saving and retrieving and editing scores seems to be taking many steps. I'm hoping someone will be able to tell me how to once again save in one step like I did before.
Thank you to everyone who is trying to help!
In reply to Yes, I can save normally. … by GollyGee
You wrote:
Yes, I can save normally.
You mean with other apps., yes?
You wrote:
And all my scores are saved to MuseScore. At least they were! They don't seem to be there now.
OK, so...
Open MuseScore, use menu item: Edit -> Preferences... in the Folders area, where does it show your Scores being saved to?
In reply to You wrote: Yes, I can save… by Jm6stringer
Yes, I can save with other apps.
I copy/pasted the info from Edit--> Preferences - Folders section:
C:/Users/gpatrick/Documents/MuseScore2/Scores
In reply to Yes, I can save with other… by GollyGee
Then when I clicked on the icon to the right, there are no scores there.
So when I go into my OneDrive to get the scores that I saved there (so as not to lose the scores when uninstalling and reinstalling) digging deeply I see that they are saved in places provided by my school district,
So that probably means I need to go back to them.
But still, why can't I save directly to the MuseScore program?
Side note: BTW, meanwhile I am trying Finale NotePad. It stinks.
In reply to Then when I clicked on the… by GollyGee
There is no such thing as saving directly to a program. Files on a computer are saved in folders on the hard drive, not in the program. You apparently somehow changed the folder you were trying to save to, and the new folder is one you don't have permission in. You can only save to folders you have permission in, naturally.
In reply to There is no such thing as… by Marc Sabatella
I'm not sure what you mean. When I write a score, I go (right on the MuseScore window) up to File-->Save as and I give it a file name and it saves. When I want to access the score again I open MuseScore, and open my file right from there.
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean. … by GollyGee
When you use File - Save as, it doesn't save to magic place inside MsueScore. It saves to a perfectly ordinary folder on your compute.r The Save As dialog even shows you what folder it is saving to. Same with File / Open - it is just opening from a normal folder on your computer, and it shows you exactly which folder that is.
Every time you save a score, you are saving it to a folder on your computer. Every time you open a score, you are opening it from a folder on your computer. There is no other place that file can be stored.
So, if you still have questions about what is going on, your next job should be, figure out what folder you have been saving to in the past, what folder you are trying to save to now, and what folder you are opening from.
In reply to Yes, I can save with other… by GollyGee
Our posts crossed. See underquark's and my replies below.
In reply to Our posts crossed. See… by Jm6stringer
Yes, I saw both. I'm thinking, at this point I should bring all you have told me (and everyone else's responses) to my IT Dept?
In reply to Yes, I saw both. I'm… by GollyGee
Good idea, if the IT person is different from the 'administer' mentioned in your first post... ;-)
BUT... maybe you can follow this:
Where on your laptop do you save files that you can access from other apps?
Go there.
Now...
You first have to create a new folder, give it a name, and save.
Next, you go to MuseScore Preferences, click the icon to the right (of Scores), browse to and select the new folder you just created (and named). Then click 'Select Folder' to close the dialog and you will see that new folder in Preferences.
You can copy all your flashdrive scores to the folder, so you don't have to remember the flashdrive every time you use MuseScore.
New scores you create and save will remain with your laptop - just like the saved files from other apps.
Regards.
Find a directory that you know that you can safely save, say, a Word document to. Don't just assume that you can save it, actually try it out and confirm that your Word document saves correctly.
Now run MuseScore and open a music file and try Save As to the directory that you KNOW that you can save Word files to.
If you can successfully save to that directory but you cannot save to the MuseScore default ..../Scores directoty then you have an OS file permission problem, not a MuseScore problem.
Maybe you no longer have permission for the 'old' location; but since you can save with other programs (and even with MuseScore to a flash drive)...
you can create a new MuseScore folder in a place you have permission (My Documents, My Music, etc.) then make that folder the default in Preferences.
Regards.