My score crashed and deleted a ton of progress
I was writing a song for concert band when musescore all of a sudden crashed. I was adding on to a song that I imported from noteflight to musescore via an XML file. I reopened musescore to find all of the progress I've made on all of my scores had been deleted. Is there any way to fix this and get all my progress back?
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My reflex reaction is probably not in your case but I may be wrong. If you opened the score, saved it and opened it again there is an invisible backup called .filename.mscz, where filename is the name of your file. If you did not turn off Auto save and did not answer no when MuseScore asks if you want to restore your previous session then there is a score named SCxxx.mscz in your scores folder where xxx is a random looking series of letters and numbers. If you restarted MuseScore and said yes to restore last session you would have seen your work up until the last auto save. See https://musescore.org/en/node/52116.
In reply to My reflex reaction is… by mike320
It is strange, because my preferences were set on autosave every 2mins and I was sent back to my situation from yesterday in spite of having put in hours of work today. Could that second document still be around somewhere?
I take it you never saved your work? In the future, get in the habit of doing that - unlike Noteflight which is web-based, MsueScore runs locally on your computer, so you need to explicitly save files. However, MuseScore does do an auto-save to a special location "just in case". When you started MuseScore after the crash, it should have offered to restore your session. Had you answered "yes", you should have had your work back. But if you haven't closed MuseScore yet, it might not be too late. See the link posted above by @mike320, it may help you find the auto-saved file.
In reply to I take it you never saved… by Marc Sabatella
Hello! The same happened to me. It did not restore anything when I pressed restore. Could it still be saved somewhere?
In reply to Hello! The same happened to… by loveronnelid
As I explained above, if you saved your work regularly, the file is still right there where you saved it, with everything that was in it the last time you saved it. No need to rely on auto save unless you literally never saved your score yourself.
In reply to As I explained above, if you… by Marc Sabatella
Yes I saw that comment. I guess I have gotten so used to few crashes and that autosave is better at remembering than I do so I have dismanteled that habit. Perhaps time to relearn it...
In reply to Yes I saw that comment. I… by loveronnelid
Hmm, I think you are very much understanding what autosave is. It is never meant to be a way of saving scores for your own regular use. If it were, it would allow you to choose the file name, folder location etc - all the things the actual save command does.
The one and only thing autosave is ever intended for is to recover your last two minutes worth of work in event of a crash. If there is no crash, the autosave has no value at all and in fact gets deleted automatically.
So I don’t understand how you could possibly have been relying on auto save - normally there is no way to even see the autosave file or indeed be aware of its existence except after crash.