My MuseScore Files From Previous Installation Don't Open On The New Installation
My MuseScore Files From Previous Installation Don't Open On The New Installation.
Why? How to fix that?
Example file;
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| .Bon Jovi - Always.mscz, | 9.92 KB |
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That's not your score, that's a backup file. Your actual score won't start with a period or end with a comma.
Your example file is a backup. Look for a file name without the leading period and trailing comma.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/file-formats#msczcomma
In reply to Your example file is a… by Jm6stringer
Sorry I see the original files below the folder.
Those backup files create a mess. I've havent seen so far that kind of files. (MS Word, Excel, Guitar Pro etc.)
If you create a word document it creates only one file. Likewise on other softwares.
It would have been better there was no backup files.
In reply to How to recover the original… by zanshin777
Once you hosed a score, you'd be grateful for that backup.
In reply to Once you hosed a score, you… by Jojo-Schmitz
You are right for some cases.
What I'm doing on MuseScore is very simple (Lead Sheets) rather than creating real scores.
It would be nice there is an option for me.
In reply to You are right for some cases… by zanshin777
Do my scores work If I delete the backup files?
In reply to Do my scores work If I… by zanshin777
Yes. But for the record - many other programs do usually create backup files. And you shouldn't be normally be seeing these files, asthey are marked "hidden". Only if for some reason you have enabled the display of hidden files in your scores folders would you ever see the backups. Sounds like you must have done that at some point, but rather than constantly deleting these useful files, I'd recommend just turning off display of hidden files again.
In reply to Yes. But for the record -… by Marc Sabatella
How to make them hidden?
In reply to How to make them hidden? by zanshin777
Same way you made them unhidden, presumably. Details depend on your OS. Again, they should have been hidden by default - you must have at some point in the past forced them not to be (perhaps years ago, before you were even using MuseScore, who knows). In Windows, the options are in Windows Explorer, I assume macOS Finder has similar options, as do the file managers for each Linux distribution.
In reply to Same way you made them… by Marc Sabatella
I thought It was adjust on MuseScore.
When I check "View - Hidden Itemes" in Windows 10 they do not disappear. ???
In reply to I thought It was adjust on… by zanshin777
It is possible you have right clicked in the folder, chosen properties, clicked the general tab and checked hidden. I'm not 100% sure but I believe this makes hidden files in this folder visible.
In reply to It is possible you have… by mike320
As you see they are visible although I made uncheck "View - Hidden Files".
???
In reply to As you see they are visible… by zanshin777
Did you manually associate the .mscz, files with MuseScore? If you did, you need to unassociate the files because MuseScore won't open the file unless the , is taken off of the suffix. If the file is not associated with a program it won't use that program's icon.
In reply to Did you manually associate… by mike320
There was about a misunderstanding about opening MuseScore files.
Actually It opens MuseScore files. It won't open MuseScore Backup files.
In reply to As you see they are visible… by zanshin777
You mention something about a "previous installation" - do you mean these files were copied over from another computer? If so, maybe something about how you did the copy resulted in them no longer being marked as hidden. If so, y9ubcan either mark them hidden now or delete them, and future backups should still be hidden correctly.
In reply to You mention something about… by Marc Sabatella
The hidden files are associated with MuseScore 3 and they should not be. MuseScore does not do this automatically. It would be far less confusing, even if for some reason the scores were visible, if they were not incorrectly associated with MuseScore 3. It seems someone went to effort to make them visible and identify them as MuseScore files.
In reply to You mention something about… by Marc Sabatella
Windows is reinstalled. So I reinstalled MuseScore again.
In reply to You mention something about… by Marc Sabatella
Windows is reinstalled by technical service. So I reinstalled MuseScore again.
In reply to You mention something about… by Marc Sabatella
How to mark them hidden?
In reply to How to mark them hidden? by zanshin777
They are by default.
Right-click, properties, hidden
In reply to They are by default. by Jojo-Schmitz
It actually doesn't make the files with specific extention hidden.
It just makes the selected files hidden.
In reply to It actually doesn't make the… by zanshin777
Correct.
In reply to It actually doesn't make the… by zanshin777
True. But the "mscz," files MuseScore creates as backups are hidden by default. And Windows by default doesn't show hidden files.