Help! Saved file won't open
I've been working on a score for a couple of weeks and every time I would save it and open it again, the file would open. Last night i saved a file and this morning it won't open at all. Sometimes i even get an error message saying "failed: Bad file descriptor". Is there anyway i can recover my file and open it somehow? I'm new to musescore so i don't know where the session directory or anything is. Please help!
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Main Themes.mscz | 10.41 KB |
Comments
empty, it seems
haven't you a backup?
This is what I got when I tried to have it open in revision 3400.
I closed the file, tried to use MS and it crashed.
In reply to This is what I got by xavierjazz
a mscz file is basically a compressed file. When opened with a zip or tar, it shows a text file with extension mscx with is somewhat similar to a xml file (you can check that with another file).
The mscz file you attached doesn't open with zip or tar software. That's a situation I met previously, and that's why I told that it's empty......your only hope being if you made some backup (or export to xml)
It seems to me that this happens when Musescore is closed hastily or forcibly, perhaps due to an internal problem.
You know that in preferences there is an option to save at regular intervals of time.....but, as far as I know this doesn't create local backups (this happens with the commercial software Pizzicato, which conserve always two previous saved files....)
In reply to a mscz file is basically a by robert leleu
robert leleu,The latest versions of MuseScore actually do save automatic backups in a separate file. If MuseScore crashes or is forced to quit without a chance to ask if you want to save your file then MuseScore will offer to restore the last auto-saved version the next time you start MuseScore. This is a new feature in version 0.9.6 and later versions.
csantiago11, MuseScore also keeps a backup copy of your previously saved file. Look for the file named ".Main Themes.mscz," (notice the period at the front and the comma at the end). It should be in the same folder as the main file. Go ahead and attach a copy of this backup file so we can look at it.
In reply to robert leleu, If you are by David Bolton
Is this the file you are talking about?
In reply to .Main Themes.mscz, by csantiago11
That is the one. If you delete the period from the beginning of the file name and delete the comma from the end of the file name it should open up in MuseScore.
It looks like your backup copy is working.
In reply to a mscz file is basically a by robert leleu
Hey do u think you can help me out as well my file i save my file last night and mine wont open as well
In reply to Hey do u think you can help… by shivams1
No, sorry, that file is beyond repair. See also #271185: Scores corrupted beyond repair, containing nothing but zeros and https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
In reply to This is what I got by xavierjazz
If you just opened the file directly from MuseScore, it would be saved in a temp folder...is that not what happened here?
Did you try saving the file?
Hi,
I've got the same problem. There is a new file with the period at the beginning and the comma at the end. I've already removed the period, but how can I get rid of the comma at the end???
It belongs to this mscz, so I can't delete it.
Pleeease I need some help ...it's very urgent! I need this file, because if I can't recover it, it's gone....
In reply to Hi, I've got the same by peace
You get rid of the comma and period the same way you would rename any file on your computer - it's just a plain file, nothing special about it. Whatever facility your OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux) provides to rename files, that's how you do it. What OS is it? On Windows, you normally right click a filename in Windows Explorer and then a menu pops up with "Rename" on it.
Note this file is the *backup* file, and that's why it is named strangely. Your actual file is the one without the period and comma. Presumably you are asking about the backup file because something has happened to your original?
In reply to You get rid of the comma and by Marc Sabatella
Okay.. I did it like that, but if I right click and click on capacity (is it called like that?!) then there it is still a MCSZ, file
with the comma. And although I've changed the name like you said, it won't open :(
I don't know what actually had happened to my file, but suddenly it didn't open anymore and there was this backup file.
In reply to Okay.. I did it like that, by peace
I've never heard of "capacity" (maybe a mistranslation of "Properties"- are you not using an English version of Windows)? But in any case, what you are asking about - how to rename files - is a general windows issue, not anything to do with MuseScore. You can probably find someone around you with some computer experience who can help with that. Once you have the file named correctly, MuseScore should be able to open it if it is not corrupt. But if your main file is corrupt and won't open either, there is no guarantee the backup isn't corrupt as well. Posting them would help; then others could see if they can open them.
In reply to I've never heard of by Marc Sabatella
Oh sorry, I meant Properties. I'm using the German version of Windows.
As I've already said, I renamed the file, as you told me....but MuseScore isn't able to open it.
Both files can not be opened by MuseScore.
So I try to post them...
In reply to Oh sorry, I meant Properties. by peace
I can't open any of them = even by renaming the backup :(
In reply to Oh sorry, I meant Properties. by peace
If you look at the file contents in a HEX viewer you will see that they have become entangled with some other files. The Zwolftonstuck files are now EXIF (pictures) from what appears to be a Panasonic DMC-FX3 camera. The other one starts with USBC and mentions DVDVIDEOSOFT.COM. They are definitely not MuseScore files anymore.
In reply to If you look at the file by schepers
Sounds like an OS or physical disk failure, then.
In reply to Sounds like an OS or physical by Marc Sabatella
So that's it? I have to compose a new one? :(
In reply to So that's it? I have do by peace
I wonder if the problem is more serious, as Marc suggested. Possibly a serious file system corruption or faulty hard disk, something worth getting checked. I've not seen this type of corruption since the DOS days.
You could look in c:\users\username\appdata\Musescore (or MusE) and check the backup files in there.
In reply to I wonder if the problem is by schepers
I can't find any backup files there...but I think there can't be any or?! Because I've had and already have the files on a usb stick. I think that's even the problem why they are damaged now....I think once somebody took him without turning it out.. :(
But I don't understand then why it happened to this file -.- I've got another one, which was/ is on the usb stick as well and there it still works perfectly.
In reply to I can't find any backup files by peace
When a disk (including a USB stick) fails, it doesn't necessarily fail all at once. When it starts to go bad, you start seeing random problems like this. So I'd say it sounds like it's time to retire that device before it ruins any more files. Assuming that really is the problem, and the failure isn't on your computer. But I'd at least try a different USB stick before worrying about replacing your hard drive. Either way, unless you saved another copy of your score somewhere else, I'm afraid you will probably need to redo it.
In reply to When a disk (including a USB by Marc Sabatella
Okay the stick is the problem, as I realized yesterday....I created a new folder and immediately there were some strange folder in it.. So I think I won't use the usb stick anymore. And finally we have to compose a new Zwölftonstück :(
But thanks for your help :)
My file will not open, & I found the backup , but there was so much lost still. Is there anyway to fix the whole bad file descriptor thing.
In reply to Bad File Descriptor by cdeas-voice
No way to say without your posting the file.
hi, my file is also not opening it, and i've lost so much work
In reply to hi, my file is also not… by Olivia Ow
This file is beyond of repair, it's empty. Please take a look for an autosaved or backup file: https://musescore.org/en/node/52116
Can't open it. When I open it the program crashes. Please help!
In reply to Can't open it. When I open… by jasonhuang123
Not sure exactly about the reason, but deleted all tremolo entries, so you should be able to open this file and insert it again.
Help! I can't open this file... Can someone help me?
In reply to Help! I can't open this file… by Tiago Matos
I suspect you attached the wrong file. The one you attached is a backup file because it ends with , normal files (the one causing you problems) do note have a , at the end of the name.
In reply to Help! I can't open this file… by Tiago Matos
However that file, after renaming away the trailing comma, opens just fine
In reply to However that file, after… by Jojo-Schmitz
Which leads me to believe they did not attach the file they are having a problem with.
In reply to Which leads me to believe… by mike320
Or that they tried to open a backup file...