Help!!!! How to recover bad score from crash

Anonymous

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:12

I was imputing part of a libretto for my high school musical for rehearsal purposes, and Musescore decided to crash on me...

I reopened Musescore, only to find that the score that I worked over 4 hours on will not load (Load Error - Cannot read file.....mscz).

There is no backup that I could find of the score, either.

How can I recover the contents of the file (if it's even possible)?

I was using the Zerberus synth with the Salamander Grand sfz.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
Jonathan

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05_The_Prince_Is_Giving_a_Ball.mscz	11.67 KB

Comments

Marc Sabatella

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:22

Did you consult https://musescore.org/en/node/52116? There should be two different types of backups you can potentially recover from.

Anonymous

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:30

I looked in the Session folder, and there is no autosave for that score (although there are about 30 others). Also, there is no .*mscz in the Scores folder.

Isaac Weiss

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:34

To be clear, it would be hidden, i.e. you would find no trace of it unless you enabled the viewing of hidden files. If you're on OS X, for example, you would need to first open the Terminal and type (or copy and paste) defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true; killall Finder and press [Enter].

Anonymous

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:41

I have always had "Show Hidden files" in Folder Options in Windows Explorer on by default.

Note that in the attached image how there is no hidden backup copy of "05_The Prince_Is_Giving_a_Ball.mscz"

It is the same way in the AppData folder

Thanks,
Jonathan

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Isaac Weiss

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:54

Oh, boy. That's bad.

Anonymous

• Mar 17, 2016 - 00:56

Yeah... What happened to me is pretty much what happened to this user: https://musescore.org/en/node/102261

Isaac Weiss

• Mar 17, 2016 - 01:00

Condolences.

Several critical bugs that could potentially be related to this have been identified, and most—but not all—have been fixed for the next release of MuseScore, which looks to be a couple of weeks away. Do you think it might be one of these? https://musescore.org/en/issue-hit-list-marc-sabatella#Crashes-and-Corr…

Anonymous

• Mar 17, 2016 - 01:16

Definitely the same as this one: https://musescore.org/en/node/87021

What's interesting is that the posted bug was on Linux and I'm on Windows7x64

And I used 7zip to open the .mscz and in both my score and the one posted with the bug, there is no .mscx file. However, my mscz has the thumbnail folder.

Hope this helps