How to delete scores from "start centre"
I have MuseScore 2.1 and have various scores in the "start centre" that I want to delete, but have no idea how to.
I have not published anything on musescore.com, but just want to get rid of all the scores that were mistakes or I do not want to keep, from the software. I can't try out things without them being there forever more.
I can find nothing on the software that allows me to delete a score once I have started it.
Any hints?
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To delete scores you need to use whatever your OS has to offer for deleting files
In reply to To delete scores you need to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. I don't mean from my computer, I have deleted them from there. I mean from the "start centre" on the app itself.
The Start Center isn't a place where scores are stored; it's just a list of scores stored elsewhere on your computer - wherever you yourself chose to save them when you did the save operation (default location is a folder called "Scores"). If you want to get rid of these files, you need to delete them normally - the same way you'd delete any other files you don't want, using the facilities provided by your OS (eg, Windows Explorer, macOS Finder). Once you delete the files from your computer, they will automatically disappear from the Start Center as soon as MuseScore realizes they are gone (might require restarting MuseScore).
FWIW, should you decide you want to make them disappear from the Start Center without deleting them - so the files will still be on your computer, just not visible in the Start Center - do File / Open Recent / Clear Recent Files.
In reply to The Start Center isn't a… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc, I have deleted them on my computer, and they remain in Start Centre despite restarting several times over several weeks.
So, it seems I will have to put up with them being there.
Thank you for your indepth response though.
In reply to Thanks Marc, I have deleted… by Liz Norton
File/Open Recent-> Clear Recent Files?
In reply to File/Open Recent-> Clear… by Shoichi
Thank you, yes I noticed Marc suggested that at the end, after I posted y reply I realised they would be deleted for good, as they are already deleted from my computer.
Thanks!
In reply to Thanks Marc, I have deleted… by Liz Norton
But the "clear recent files" worked. So, thanks for that tip.
In reply to Thanks Marc, I have deleted… by Liz Norton
If the file is gone and you restart MsueScor,e then there is no way for it to display a thumbnail - the thumbnail comes from the file itself. So if you were still seeing the thumbnail after restarting MsueScore, then there is no explanation other than, the file is still present. Could well be you only deleted the backup" file (name starting with period and ending with comma), or that you had copies of the file in different folders or under different filenames. From your description, the file *is still there, somewhere.
In reply to If the file is gone and you… by Marc Sabatella
Then I have no idea where, I've looked everywhere!
But if I can't see them, then that's enough for me, for now.
While I have you here though.... Is there any way of inserting excerpts created in musescore in a word document?
In reply to Then I have no idea where, I… by Liz Norton
https://musescore.org/en/node/52116#2.-Autosaved-version
Sometimes, under yet to be fully understood circumstances, MuseScore stores a file at a so-called virtual store
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/image-capture
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/musescore-example-manager
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by Shoichi
Thank you so much!
In reply to Then I have no idea where, I… by Liz Norton
Try the find facility built in to your OS to do the looking for you - all files ending in ".MSCZ" or ".MSCX".
As for inserting excerpts into Word, see the image capture tool in MuseScore (camera icon at right of main toolbar), which allows you to define a region, take a snapshot that is saved either to your clipboard or to a file, then either paste or load it into Word.
Even better for large documents, if you can switch to LibreOffice, is the MuseScore Example Manager, which allows you to insert the MSCZ files "directly" (not really, it's still saving to a graphic file, but it appears as if the MSCZ is inserted directly) and to keep the link so you can ctrl+click on the image to edit the score in MuseScore and then hit a button to update the document with those changes.
In reply to Try the find facility built… by Marc Sabatella
That's really helpful thank you.
In reply to Try the find facility built… by Marc Sabatella
I did download LibreOffice, and the Example Manager, and went through the steps to add the extension to LibreOffice, and restarted it several times.... But no musescore button on the toolbar, or Musescore example on the Insert drop down menu.
Not sure what to do now... Any hints?
In reply to I did download LibreOffice,… by Liz Norton
Works for me (version 2.0.0). Did you activate the Example Manager via tools->Extension Manager...?
Libre Office version: 5.2.5.1
In reply to Works for me. Did you… by kuwitt
I did indeed. LibreOffice 5.4.5 MuseScore 2.1 Windows 10.
In reply to I did indeed. LibreOffice 5… by Liz Norton
So it looks on my system (OpenSuse Leap 42.1). Did you save the extension in the correct folder?
In reply to So it looks on my system… by kuwitt
I did indeed. But I just downloaded the other version, 6.0, and the extension is now there in the drop down menu. (No button on toolbar, but at least it is there! )
In reply to I did download LibreOffice,… by Liz Norton
I downloaded the extension;
I launched Libreoffice and then Ctrl+A+E (Extension manager)-> Add.
Here it doesn't work (but the pc is old and obsolete)
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LibreOffice 5.4.3.2/MsS 2.1.0
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My Error: It works.
I had not paid attention to the correct Path (C:?Program Files?MuseScore 2?bin) but it is not displayed correctly (HW limits)
In reply to I downloaded the extension;… by Shoichi
It is showing as added in the extension manager. But no buttons on toolbar, or links on drop down menu.
In reply to It is showing as added in… by Liz Norton
Have you restarted LibreOffice?
In reply to Have you restarted… by Shoichi
Several times, but I just downloaded the other version, 6.0, and the extension is now there in the drop down menu. (No button on toolbar, but at least it is there!)
Ah.....Have just found it on the extension bit of the toolbar. All there in new version. Hoorah!