lost files

• Nov 5, 2021 - 11:26

I recently downloaded Musescore 3 and saved three files after having written some music. I closed the program and when I went back Musescore would not open to the page that allows you to set up a new composition. Instead it opened to an advertisement for Musescore with an invitation to start a new trial. There was no way of accessing any previous file.

How do I get the regular version of Musescore back? Why did it get deleted from my computer? Should I just download another version of Musescore 3? I can see that my files still show up when I try to access them on the regular MacBook Pro file finder, but when I click to open them, it goes right back to that advertisement page. If I download Musescore 3 again, will I be able to open those files properly? If I download another version of Musescore 3, will it be deleted from the computer all over again?

Thank you so much for any information you can provide.

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Nov 5, 2021 - 11:29

There is no non-regular version of MuseScore and unless you uninstalled it yourself it'd still be on your computer.

But don't confuse the MuseScore Editor with the musescore.com website
Also don't get confused by the Musescore's appliation Start Center, which does have a section showing that musescore.com website.

Marc Sabatella

• Nov 5, 2021 - 13:47

If you wrote some music, you were using the actual MuseScore notation program, presumably started from an icon on your desktop.

If you later on saw an ad for a free trial of the MuseScore Pro service from musescore.com, then you weren't in MuseScore at all - that was your web browser, viewing the website musescore.com. You don't need a web browser to use MuseScore, just open MuseScore directly the same way you did last time (presumably from the desktop icon).

If you're saying that clicking an MSCZ file in Finder is opening your web browser instead, then somehow it seems your file associations have become messed up. I'm not a macOS expert to I can't guess how you might have managed to do that, but you'd need to change it back to the default, so clicking an MSCZ file opens MuseScore rather than your web browser.